Onesimus Pankratov — Russian military pilot and hero

Onesimus Pankratov - Russian military pilot and hero of World War I, the first Russian who rode around the world on a bicycle.

Sports training - the key to a successful trip. Born on February 9, 1888, came from a peasant Penza province. Educated at Trinity High School. Onesimus Pankratov was very versatile athlete. Love for the sport he instilled father. Onesimus dabbled in several sports and all succeeded.

The idea of traveling Put the idea in his life prompted newspaper in which he read that the International Cycling Federation in 1896, established the award "Diamond Palm" athlete who can first go round the whole of Europe.

On the way traveler saw. . . Traveling outside Russia Onesimus was constantly looking for an opportunity to earn money to continue the route. He also attended in many wrestling and cycling. In Italy, he caught a severe cold, overcoming foot mountain passes. And again he came to help compatriots living there.

Traveler faced with many problems of life in nature. Picture Vasnetsov "Taiga in the Urals"

Winter 1913 Onesimus set foot in the U. S. , which struck him as inhospitable. In the literature very little about the journey Onesimus Pankratov in America. To purchase tickets for the boat, he worked as a loader at the port. After completing his journey, Pankratov not want to stop there. His idea was fascinated by travel around the world by plane. But this idea has not given realize war. wa

The man who drove around the world, takes on harmony with nature, knows all living creature on this planet.

September 5 th, 1916 at Dvinsk he flew to his last job. Successfully coped with the two German planes, Pankratov noticed a third, setting him on the tail. So died the great traveler and a great soldier.

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