Vladimir Sergeyevich Seryogin (in Russian, Владимир Сергеевич Серёгин, Moscow July 7, 1922 – March 27, 1968) was a Soviet test pilot, a Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded medals of the 1st and 2nd degrees in the World War II, and later the Lenin award.
Vladimir Seryogin, developed since childhood a firm, determined and fearless character. He dreamed of the skies on school benches, and became a volunteer of the Red Army right after school. There, his abilities were recognized, and he was directed to piloting, whence Vladimir was sent to the front. Not a month had passed that Vladimir Seryogin became the senior pilot of his regiment. A participant of the German-Soviet War, Vladimir Seryogin, still a young pilot, had acquired much fighting experience.
After the termination of the war, Vladimir Seryogin, remained to serve in the Air Forces of the USSR. Having ended engineering academy, Vladimir had gone on to work for test institute of the Air Forces, as a test pilot. He performed enormous work as such. Time and again, Seryogin, as the leading test pilot for the MiG-15, faced difficult situations, but coped with those each and every time and thereafter delivered useful reports. Also, Vladimir Seryogin was the commanding officer for the Cosmonauts' Flight Preparation.
The life of the great pilot, the competent expert and the benevolent person, was broken in 1968 in an air crash on a MiG-15 together with the first-ever cosmonaut, his close friend and colleague, Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.