Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A cewar dansa, Lev Kamanin, Nikolai Kamanin an haife shi ne a 1909 kuma ya canza shi zuwa 1908 don yaudarar ma'aikatan shiga sojojin lokacin da ya ba da kansa a 1927. Ya wuce gwajin motsa jiki na iska kuma ya kammala makarantar matukan jirgi a Borisoglebsk a 1929, wanda mashahurin matukin jirgi Victor Kholzunov ya horar da shi. An tura Kamanin zuwa wurin rikicin jirgin kasa na Rasha da China
a Gabas ta Tsakiya, ya isa kwana daya bayan tsagaita wuta. A can, ya shiga cikin almara Lenin Air Regiment, rukunin sojojin sama na farko a tarihin Soviet. Kamanin ya tashi jirgin sama na bincike mai kujeru biyu, gami da tafiye-tafiye na tsawon sa'o'i 11 a kan Tekun Japan. Abokin aikinsa, a bayyane yake, dan asalin kasar Sin ne.