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Soviet Air Force (VVS) Reference List
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- Borisoglebsk Military Pilots School
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces Post-World War II
- Command Structure of the Soviet Air Forces, 1918-1941
- Development of Military Aviation in Russia Prior to World War I
- Development of Soviet Air Defense Forces
- Early Soviet Military Aviators
- First All-Russia Aviation Congress
- First Soldiers Aviation Congress
- Gatchina Airfield
- Growth of the Soviet Air Force
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Kachinsk Military Aviation School
- Lipetsk Airfield
- NKO Order No. 2398 on Army Personnel (November 21, 1935)
- NKO Order No. 2488 on Army Personnel (November 28, 1935)
- NKO Order No. 2601 on Army Personnel (December 13, 1935)
- Order of the NKO on Training of Flight Cadre in the Red Army Air Forces in 1940
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the SNK on Awarding Military Ranks to Senior Command Personnel of the Red Army
- Orders of the Soviet NKO
- Orenburg Military Pilots School
- Organizational Structure of the Soviet Air Forces
- Organizational Structure of the Soviet Air Forces, May 16, 1918
- Radio Communications Equipment in the Soviet Air Force to 1945
- Soviet AOB
- Soviet AOB Operation Barbarossa
- Soviet Air Armies
- Soviet Air Force Adoption of New Aircraft Types in 1941
- Soviet Air Force Commanders
- Soviet Air Force Manpower
- Soviet Air Force Personnel
- Soviet Aircraft Factories
- Soviet Aircraft Losses During Operation Barbarossa
- Soviet Aircraft Losses During World War II
- Soviet Aircraft Production and Inventories 1941-1945
- Soviet Aircraft Production and Inventories to 1941
- Soviet Aircraft Production by Aircraft Type and Factory, 1926-1940
- Soviet Aircraft Production by Aircraft Type and Factory, 1941-1945
- Soviet Aviation Schools
- Soviet Development of Radar to 1945
- Soviet Izdelie Numbers
- Soviet Military Districts
- Soviet Military Ranks
- Soviet Pilot Memoirs
- Soviet Pilot Memoirs from World War II
- Soviet Pilots in Foreign Wars
- Soviet Pilots in the Spanish Civil War
- Soviet Volunteer Pilots in China
- Top World War II Fighter Aces
- Unidentified Soviet Aviators
- Zhukovskii Military Air Academy
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| Adriashenko, Viktor | |
| Akashev, Konstantin | World War I aviator, Bolshevik revolutionary, and the first commander of the Soviet air forces. |
| Akhmatovich, E. | Soviet revolutionary and early participant in the founding of the Soviet air forces |
| Alekseev, Pavel | Soviet aviator and general officer who became a victim of Stalin's Military Purges just before the outbreak of World War II |
| Alksnis, Yakov | Alksnis was the head of Soviet Military Aviation for 11 years during its early, formative period (1926-1937), but then was arrested and executed during the Great Purge. |
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| Andreev, Aleksandr | |
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| Andrianov, Nikolai | |
| Arkhipenko, Fyodr | Soviet World War II fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union |
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| Arvatov, Georgii | Early Soviet aviator, participant in the Russian Civil War, and three-time Order of the Red Banner recipient |
| Arzhenukhin, Fyodor | |
| Astakhov, Fyodor | Soviet military aviator and senior air commander during World War II |
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| Auzan, Adolf | Soviet aviator during the Russian Civil War, Order of the Red Banner recipient and air force engineer |
| Bakhchivandzhi, Grigorii | Soviet test pilot who led the flight testing of the Soviet's first rocket-powered fighter, the BI-1 |
| Baranov, Pyotr | Participant in the Russian Revolution and a political officer during the Russian Civil War, who later commanded the Soviet air forces from 1924 to 1931 |
| Bartini, Robert | Soviet aircraft designer from the mid-1920s through World War II |
| Beletskii, Evgeniy | Soviet air army commander during World War II |
| Bibikov, Vasily | Soviet military aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and commander of an air army during World War II |
| Blagoveshchenskii, Aleksei | |
| Budanova, Ekaterina | One of two female Soviet fighter aces during World War II (along with Lidiya Litvyak), credited with six individual and five shared victories. |
| Buob, Ivan | Russian aviator during World War I who joined the Soviets and fought during the Russian Civil War |
| Chernikh, Sergei | Soviet fighter pilot, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Deinekin, Pyotr | Last Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Forces, and first Commander in Chief of the Russian Federation Air Forces |
| Denisov, Sergei | Soviet military aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and one of the earliest two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
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| Dobrolezh, Aleksandr | Soviet military aviator |
| Emelyanenko, Vasily | Soviet ground attack pilot during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Eryomin, Boris | Soviet World War II fighter ace |
| Evstigneev, Kirill | The Soviet Union's fifth-highest scoring fighter ace of World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Falaleev, Fyodr | |
| Filin, Aleksandr | Soviet test pilot in the 1930s, and commander of the Soviet Air Force Scientific Testing Institute (NII) |
| Glinka, Dmitrii | One of the Soviet Union's top scoring fighter aces during World War II with a total of 50 victories, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Golodnikov, Nikolai | Soviet fighter ace in World War II who served primarily with the Northern Fleet |
| Golovanov, Alexander | Commander of Soviet long range aviation during World War II |
| Golubev, Vasiliy | Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, who served primarily with the Baltic Fleet during World War II |
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| Gorbunov, Mikhail | |
| Gorelov, Sergei | Soviet World War II fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Goryunov, Sergei | |
| Grigorovich, Dmitry | Soviet aircraft designer |
| Gritsevets, Sergei | Soviet fighter ace who participated in the Spanish Civil War, and was one of the first people to become a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Gromadin, Mikhail | One of the early Soviet Air Defense (PVO) commanders and the first to command the National Air Defense Forces (PVO Strany) |
| Gromov, Mikhail | Soviet military aviator and test pilot, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Gulayev, Nikolai | The third-highest scoring Soviet fighter ace of World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Gusev, Aleksandr | Soviet fighter pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union who served in the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, and World War II |
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| Gusev, Konstantin | Soviet military aviator and senior commander prior to World War II |
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| Gvaita, Evgeniy | Early Soviet aviator who participated in the Russian Civil War |
| Ingaunis, Felix | An experienced and well respected Soviet aviator who fought during the Russian Civil War and rose to the rank of Corps Commander in charge of the Kiev Military District Air Forces, before becoming a victim of Stalin's Military Purges in 1937. |
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| Ionov, Aleksei | Commander of the Baltic Special Military District's Air Forces at the start of World War II, but arrested by Stalin just a few days after the conflict began |
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| Ionov, Pyotr | Lt. Gen. Ionov was a senior instructor at the Frunze Military Academy and published a work on Fighter Aviation just prior to the beginning of World War II |
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| Kagan, Mikhail | |
| Kamanin, Nikolai | Soviet air officer, Hero of the Soviet Union, and participant in the Soviet space program |
| Kamozin, Pavel | World War II Soviet Fighter ace with 35 victories and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Khripin, Vasily | |
| Khryukin, Timofei | Soviet aviator, volunteer pilot in the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War, senior air commander during World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Khudyakov, Sergei | Soviet Air Force Chief of Staff during much of World War II |
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| Klisheiko, Franz | |
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| Kokhanskii, Vladislav | |
| Kokkinaki, Vladimir | Soviet test pilot for the Air Force Scientific Test Institute and later the Ilyushin Design Bureau, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Koldunov, Aleksandr | A top-scoring Soviet fighter ace during World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Kondratyuk, Daniil | |
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| Konkin, Yakov | Early Soviet aviator, commanded air forces for the 8th Army on the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War |
| Kopets, Ivan | Soviet volunteer pilot in the Spanish Civil War and commander of the Western Special Military District--which was hit hardest by the German attack--at the start of World War II |
| Korotaev, Pyotr | |
| Kozhedub, Ivan | Soviet fighter pilot, three-time Hero of the Soviet Union, and the highest scoring World War II ace of both the Soviet Union and all Allied nations, credited with 62 victories. |
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| Kozhevnikov, Aleksandr | |
| Krasovskii, Stepan | Soviet military aviator, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Kravchenko, Grigorii | Soviet fighter ace and one of the first to become a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Kutakhov, Pavel | Soviet World War II fighter ace and later Commander in Cheif of the Soviet Air Forces, two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Kutsevalov, Timofey | Soviet fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, and senior air commander during World War II |
| Lapchinskii, Aleksandr | One of the leading airpower theorists in the Soviet Union leading up to WWII |
| Lapin, Albert | |
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| Lavinovskii, Boris | |
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| Lavrov, Vasily | |
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| Lazarevich, Vladimir | |
| Litvyak, Lidia | Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and one of only two female fighter aces in the world, credited with 12 victories (11 aircraft plus an observation balloon). |
| Loktionov, Alexander | Commander of the Soviet air forces from 1937 to 1939 |
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| Lopatin, Vsevolod | |
| Lyapidevskii, Anatolii | Soviet naval aviator, participant in the rescue of the stranded crew of the Chelyuskin, and first ever Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Maltsev, Victor | Early Soviet aviator who later ran afoul of the Communist Party and ended up collaborating with the Germans during World War II, ultimately as commander of air forces for the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) |
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| Mednis, Artur | Mednis was the first in the USSR to write a study specifically on ground attack aviation. |
| Mezheninov, Sergei | Russian General Staff officer and commander in the Soviet army and air forces |
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| Mezheraup, Pyotr | An early Soviet aviator, Russian Civil War participant, and three-time recipient of the Order of the Red Banner |
| Michugin, Fyodor | Soviet Air Force General in charge of the Odessa Military District's air forces at the start of World War II |
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| Mironov, Aleksei | Early Soviet aviator and air commander who served in the Black Sea Fleet during World War II |
| Moiseev, Yakov | Soviet pilot, participant in the Russian Civil War, test pilot, and three-time Order of the Red Banner recipient |
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| Monastiryov, Sokrat | An early Soviet aviator and three-time recipient of the Order of the Red Banner |
| Mozhaev, A. | Early Soviet aviator and air commander |
| Naumenko, Nikolai | |
| Naumov, A. | Soviet aviator, Deputy Commander of the air forces in the early 1930s |
| Novikov, Aleksandr | Commander of the Soviet Air Forces (VVS) for most of World War II |
| Papivin, Nikolai | Soviet senior air commander during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Pavlov, Ivan | Russian fighter pilot during World War I who sided with the Reds during the Russian Civil War and subsequently served in the Soviet air forces |
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| Petrozhitskii, Ivan | World War I fighter pilot, early Soviet aviator and later air commander during the 1930's, arrested by Stalin in 1938 but freed in 1948 |
| Pokryshkin, Aleksandr | One of the leading Soviet fighter aces of World War II (59 victories), a tactical innovator, and the first person to become a three-time recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. |
| Polikarpov, Nikolai | Soviet aircraft designer most famous for designing fighters prior to World War II, including the I-153, I-15, and I-16 |
| Polynin, Fyodr | Soviet bomber pilot, participant in the Second Sino-Japanese War, air commander, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Popkov, Vitalii | One of the top-scoring Soviet fighter aces of World War II, and a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Proskurov, Ivan | Proskurov participated as a Soviet volunteer bomber pilot in the Spanish Civil War, for which he was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union; in the course of just a few years he rose from the rank of Sr. Lt. to General in charge of Military Intelligence (later known as the GRU), only to be purged by Stalin five days after the Nazis invaded and the Soviets were drawn into World War II. |
| Pstygo, Ivan | Soviet bomber pilot during World War II |
| Ptukhin, Evgenii | Commander of the Kiev Special Military District air forces at the start of World War II, but arrested by Stalin shortly after the beginning of the conflict |
| Pumpur, Pyotr | Soviet fighter ace and fighter group commander during the Spanish Civil War, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Pushkin, Anatoly | Soviet bomber pilot who served as a volunteer pilot in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and later participated in the Soviet-Finnish War and World War II, earning the title Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Pyatykhin, Ivan | |
| Rechkalov, Grigorii | A top-scoring Soviet fighter ace from World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
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| Remezyuk, Vasily | |
| Rozengolts, Arkadii | Soviet Communist Party functionary who served as commander of Soviet Air Forces in 1923-24 |
| Rudenko, Sergei | |
| Ryazanov, Vasily | Soviet military aviator, a senior air commander during World War II, and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Rybalchenko, Stepan | A senior Soviet air commander during World War II |
| Rychagov, Pavel | |
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| Pyzhenkov, Mikhail | |
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| Sakrier, Ivan | Soviet engineer, head of the Air Force Armaments Directorate in 1941 |
| Samoilo, Aleksandr | |
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| Samoilov, Ivan | |
| Sapozhnikov, Grigorii | |
| Senatorov, Aleksandr | Soviet aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union, and senior air commander during World War II |
| Serogodskii, Vasily | Soviet fighter pilot in the early part of World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Serov, Anatolii | Soviet fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War, test pilot, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Serov, Vladimir | Soviet fighter ace during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Shakht, Ernst | Swedish-born Soviet bomber pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union who participated in the Spanish Civil War but ultimately became a victim of Stalin's purges |
| Shakhurin, Aleksei | Served as the Soviet Minister (People's Commissar) of the Aviation Industry during World War II |
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| Sharapov, Ivan | |
| Shelukhin, Pyotr | |
| Shevchenko, Vladimir | Soviet pilot who participated in the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, the Soviet-Finnish War, and World War II in bomber and ground attack units and received the Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Shirinkin, Aleksei | Russian fighter ace during World War I, sided with the Soviets and flew in the Soviet air forces and as a test pilot |
| Skomorokhov, Nikolai | Soviet World War II fighter ace (46 victories plus 8 partial) and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union. |
| Skripko, Nikolai | Soviet aviator and air commander, who commanded Soviet Military Transport Aviation (VTA) for 1950-1969 |
| Slepenkov, Yakov | Soviet naval aviator and fighter ace during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Slobozhan, David | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II |
| Slyusarev, Sidor | Soviet bomber pilot, air commander, and Hero of the Soviet Union who fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet-Finnish War, and World War II |
| Smirnov, Constantine | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II |
| Smushkevich, Yakov | Soviet Air Force commander and two-time Hero of the Soviet Union who participated in the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol, and ultimately fell victim to Stalin's Military Purges |
| Sokolov, Ivan | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II |
| Stepanov, Pavel | Soviet political officers, aviator and senior air commander during World War II |
| Stroev, Mikhail | Soviet aviator, air commander, and an early participant in the founding of the Soviet air forces |
| Sudets, Vladimir | Soviet aviator, senior air commander during World War II, and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Sutyagin, Nikolai | Soviet fighter pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union who was the highest scoring ace during the Korean War |
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| Teplinskii, Boris | A participant in the Russian Civil War, commander in the Soviet air forces, and author of several works on air tactics and doctrine |
| Tkachyov, Ivan | |
| Tkhor, Grigorii | Soviet aviator, participant in the Spanish Civil War and deputy commander of an air division during World War II |
| Tomashevskii, Apollinarii | Soviet aviator who participated in World War I and the Russian Civil War and later became one of the earliest Soviet test pilots |
| Turzhanskii, Alexander | Soviet aviator and specialist in the development of ground attack aviation tactics |
| Turzhanskii, Boris | Soviet fighter pilot, participant in the Spanish Civil War, and the first to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union for action in combat |
| Ukhin, Evgenii | Soviet pilot-observer, participant in the Russian Civil War, and three-time Order of the Red Banner recipient |
| Vasilchenko, Nikolai | |
| Vershinin, Constantine | Soviet air commander who commanded the 4th Air Army during World War II and later became Commander in Chief of the Soviet Air Forces |
| Vinogradov, Vasily | |
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| Vorotnikov, Alexander | World War I Russian aviator who joined the Reds after the Russian Revolution and became one of the earliest commanders of the Red air forces |
| Vorozheikin, Arsenii | One of the top Soviet fighter aces during World War II, and a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Vorozheikin, Grigorii | |
| Yakimenko, Anton | World War II Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Yatsenko, Vladimir | Soviet aircraft designer responsible for designing aircraft including the DI-6 and the I-287 |
| Zalevskii, Adam | |
| Zhdanov, Vasily | Soviet aviator and senior air commander during World War II |
| Zhigarev, Pavel | |
| Zhuravlyov, Ivan | Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Finnish War, and senior air commander during World War II |
| Zimin, Georgii | World War II Soviet fighter ace and air commander |
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| Znamenskii, Andrei | Soviet Communist Party functionary who served as commander of the Red Army Air Forces in 1922-23 |
[edit] Aircraft
| An-2 | The largest single engine biplane ever built and one of the few biplanes designed after World War II, the An-2 was the first aircraft designed by the Antonov design bureau. |
| I-207 | One of the last biplane fighter designs created in the USSR, tested between 1937-39 but ultimately never matched the performance of the I-153 and did not enter production. |
| I-Z | Heavily armed but poor performing Soviet fighter plane produced in small numbers during the mid-1930s |
| Li-2 | Soviet license-built version of the DC-3 transport |
| Mig-23 | Soviet swing-wing fighter aircraft |
| MiG-29 | Soviet fourth generation air superiority fighter |
| MiG-3 | Soviet fighter aircraft deployed just prior to Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, on a par with the leading German fighters of the time. |
| Pe-3 | Soviet World War II-era high-altitude, long-range two-seat "heavy" fighter |
| Su-2 | A Soviet single engine light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service during 1940, but was underarmed and quickly made obsolete after that start of the war. |
| Yak-6 | Soviet World War II transport/utility and light bomber aircraft |
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