Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Maresyev akaberekerwa muKamyshin nevabereki vokuRussia. Baba vake vakanga vari mushandi ane unyanzvi uyo akafa nokukurumidza pashure pokunge adzoka kubva kuHondo Yenyika I. Asati apinda muchiuto muna 1937 Maresyev akashanda somunhu turner uye ipapo akabatanidzwa mukuvakwa kweKomsomolsk-on-Amur. Muna 1940 akapedza kudzidza paBataysk Military School of Aviation. Akatanga kubhururuka semutyairi wendege dzehondo muna August 1941. Akanga arova pasi mana ndege German kubudikidza March 1942, asi musi 4 April 1942 ake Polikarpov I-16 akapfurwa pasi pedyo Staraya Russa, zvinenge chokwadi kubudikidza ramangwana Knight raMwari Cross holder uye 48-kuuraya nyanzvi Fw. Peter Siegler ((3./JG-54) uye akapotsa abatwa nemauto echiNazi.  Mubvunzo: Ndeipi nguva iyo ndege yaPeter Siegler yakadonhedzwa pedyo neStaraya?
4 April 1942