He was born to an ethnic Russian father , Nikolai , and a Muslim mother , Fanaziya , who both appealed Request to their son to abstain Removing from violence Violence and attempted to find Placing him in Dagestan .

The captain of the Aeroflot aircraft , Nikolai Dmitrijev ( born 18 October 1931 ) , was a Hero of Socialist Labor and one of the Soviet Union 's most decorated civil airline pilots .