A part of the cemetery, hidden from the path leading to the almost imperceptible border between the Ladywell and Brockley cemeteries, is crowned with a broken cross-shaped tombstone. Here, in plot 1364E, rests the outstanding Russian pilot and inventor Captain Sergey Alekseyevich Ulyanin (1871, 1921), buried alongside his wife Lyudmila Ulyanina (1887, 1970).
Captain Ulyanin was educated at the famous flight school of the Imperial Air Force in Gatchina, in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). It was the first aviation school in Russia, which trained many outstanding pilots for the onset of World War I in 1914. The name of Sergey Alekseyevich Ulyanin has become almost as legendary as the names of some of his former students who gained international recognition as ace fighter pilots. Among them were the successful aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky and the founder of advanced aerobatics, including the famous death loop, Pyotr Nesterov.
In March 1918, Ulyanin was sent abroad to finalize the affairs of the Procurement Commission and to organize a new Aviation Information Mission in England, Italy, and France. In England, he remained in exile. He died on October 13, 1921, in London.
In the second photo, Captain Ulyanin is captured with Tsar Nicholas II, presumably during a visit to Gatchina on October 26, 1911.
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