Georgy Parshin used to work as a metalworker and also went to attend training for flight instructors before he became an Il-2 pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
Two years after moving to Dnepropetrovsk in 1932 he graduated from his ninth grade of school, after which he worked as a metalworker. Having graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk aeroclub in 1936, he went on to attend training for flight instructors which he completed in 1937. 10 May] 1916  13 March 1956) was an Il-2 pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. 
