Boris Pavlovich Bugayev
Russian, 1923 - 2007
Biographical NoteBoris Pavlovich Bugaev was a Soviet military pilot, politician and statesman. From 1941 to 1942 he was a cadet on aircraft training squadrons. He spent the war years from 1942 to 1943 as a pilot instructor and then as an operational pilot until 1947. In 1966 Bugaev was appointed Deputy Minister for Civil Aviation and the following year he became First Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation. This was his title during the Ford adminstration.