On January 7, 1928 when the test pilot M. M. GROMOW started for the first flight on the new biplane U-2 of the designer Nikolaj Nikolajevitch Poliatpov nobody at the airport did not expect what kind of future will have this plane. U-2 was constructed as a trainer being this for more than 20 years not only in the original version with the engine of the designers A. D. Svecov and N. N. Okrokmachko M-11 with the output of 74 kW (100HP) but also in the version from 1939 U-2CT with the engine M-11Dwith the output of 94 kW(125 HP). The whole generation of the soviet pilots before and after the war learned to fly on this plane, only in the years of the war there were more than 100 000 pilots. In 1931 was produced the agriculture version U-2AP followed by U-2AO, U-2AS and this series ends by the after war version Po-2 with an engine M-11K. From 1932 was flown the sanitary three seat version U-2S-1, from 1939 another version U-2S-2. In the 1941 five seat version with boxes on the wings for wounded soldiers U-2S-3(SKF) and after the war the last three seats sanitary version Po-2S was risen.

Before the war the three seat military communication version U-2VS and the civil version U-2SP came into being. During the war they were changed into 4-seat version U-2ŠS and U-2L with covered cabins. With different floating systems U-2M and MU-2 flew in Navy Air Force.

In the severe war-time years on the front there were fling U-2 to the partisans, carrying wounded persons, they used to train thousands of pilots. From the version U-2VS arose the light night bomber version LNB, carrying up to 350 kg of bombs. U-2NAK for the night controlling of the artillery fire and in 1941 also the light battle version U-2LŠ or U-2VOM-1 with the engine M-11Darmoured by machinegun and carrying our rockets RS-82 and 120 kg of bombs. In 1943 began a new version U-2GN with big radio-loudspeakers which with the battle version prepared the fascists many unsleeping nights.

In 1944 after the death of N. N. Polikarpov changed the marking of all U-2 to Po-2 and their production in the USSR ends in the fiftieth. A couple of years then were produced in license under the marking CSS-13 in Poland. Some special versions Po-2 were used also in the war of Korea. Altogether there were produced more than 40,000 planes. Also the Czechoslovak Military Force used these Po-2 during the war and also the Czechoslovak Air-Force for the period after the war for connecting tasks under the marking K-62. At the end of the fifties several Po-2s were flying in Czechoslovak Svazarm aeroclubs.

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