{"id":1024849,"date":"2026-06-26T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1024849"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:12:39","slug":"85-years-of-the-fiery-takeoff-gastellos-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1024849","title":{"rendered":"85 years of the fiery takeoff: Gastello&#8217;s feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 1941, in the days of <strong>the Great Patriotic War<\/strong>, <strong>Captain Nikolay Frantsevich Gastello<\/strong> performed a feat that became a legend. The plane engulfed in flames, the captain directed to the very heart of the enemy column. It was not just death &#8211; it was a feat, a fiery symbol of unbending will and love for the Motherland. And today, after 85 years, his memory lives not only in our hearts, but also on the streets of cities &#8211; for example, in Polotsk, where one of the streets bears the hero&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>By the decision of <strong>the Polotsk City Council of Workers&#8217; Deputies dated March 11, 1947 No.1815<\/strong>, the newly constructed street in the Zapolotje district was named <strong>\u00abN.Gastello Street\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-170.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1085597\" class=\"wp-image-1085597 alignnone size-full\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>1. Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk City Council of Workers&#8217; Deputies dated 11.03.1947 No.1815. ZGAPol F.658 Op.1 D.41 LL.107, 107 vol.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 1941, in the days of the Great Patriotic War, Captain Nikolay Frantsevich Gastello performed a feat that became a legend. The plane engulfed in flames, the captain directed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1024849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024850,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024849\/revisions\/1024850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}