LANDAVS, ZIEDONIS

• May 21, 1889 - Born, near Valmiera
• Graduated from Terbatas University
• Studies aviation theory at the St.Petersburg polytechnical institute
• Completed Naval Aviators officer school in Baku (in the Caucuses)
• During WW1 he flew seaplanes in the Caspian Sea, later the Baltic (Gulf of Bothnia)
• During the Russian Civil War, he continued to fly, but now for the Reds. He later defected to the Latvians.
• In peacetime, in Latvia, he was a leader in the educational community, often representing Latvia in international educational forums.
• After the war he settled in Stuttgart, a professor in the Stuttgart technical high school.
• 1952 - emigrates to Lund, Sweden.
• January 25, 1985 - Died in Lund, Sweden.

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