List of Soviet fighter pilots in World War II
The list of Soviet fighter pilots in World War II includes fighter pilots of the Soviet air forces in World War II , which lasted from 1939 to 1945 , who scored at least 40 kills.
Overview
The table contains the Soviet aviators from 40 confirmed kills with:
- Surname
- Rank
- Number of confirmed aerial victories
- highest award given
- Unit / IAP (Russian: istrebitelny awiazionny polk) - fighter pilot regiment, LA (vosduschnaja armija) - air army
- Date of death (†)
Note: The list can be sorted : By clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting.
Surname | image | rank | L. | Award | unit | † |
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Ivan Nikitovich Koschedub | major | 62 | 3 × HdS | 176th GW IAP ( 16th LA ) | August 12, 1991 | |
Alexander Ivanovich Pokryschkin | Colonel | 59 (6 of them as group shots) | 3 × HdS | 16th Gw IAP (2nd LA) | November 13, 1985 | |
Nikolai Dmitrievich Gulaev | 57 | 2 × HdS | 423. IAP 487. IAP 129. Gw IAP |
September 27, 1985 | ||
Grigory Andreevich Rechkalov | Major general | 56 | 2 × Order of Lenin | 16. Gw IAP | December 20, 1990 | |
Kirill Alexejewitsch Evstignejew | Major general | 52 | 2 × HdS | 240th IAP (6th LA), 178th Gw IAP |
August 29, 1996 | |
Arseni Wassiljewitsch Vorosheikin | 52 | 2 × HdS | 728th IAP, 32nd Gw IAP (9th LA) |
May 23, 2001 | ||
Dmitri Borisovich Glinka | Colonel | 50 | 2 × HdS | 45th IAP, 100th Gw IAP |
March 1, 1979 | |
Amet-chan Sultan | major | 49 (19 of them as group shots) | 2 × HdS | 9. Gw IAP | 1st February 1971 | |
Alexander Fyodorovich Klubov | Captain | 50 | 2 × HdS | 27. Gw IAP | November 1, 1944 | |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Skomorochow | major | 46 | 31st IAP (17th LA) | 1994 | ||
Alexander Ivanovich Koldunow | Chief Marshal | 46 | HdS | 866. IAP | June 7, 1992 | |
Vitaly Ivanovich Popkov | Lieutenant General | 41 | 2 × HdS | 5th Gw IAP (17th LA) | June 2, 2010 | |
Boris Feoktistowitsch Safonow | 41 | 2 × HdS | 32nd SAP, 78th IAP |
May 30, 1942 | ||
Alexej Wassiljewitsch Alelyukhin | Captain | 40 | 2 × HdS | 9. Gw IAP | October 29, 1990 |
See also
- List of German fighter pilots in World War II
- List of Japanese fighter pilots in World War II
- List of British fighter pilots in World War II
- List of American fighter pilots in World War II
literature
- Raymond F. Toliver: Get Hartmann from Heaven. Publisher: Motorbuch.
- Christopher Chant / Richard Humble: The great book of dogfights. Publisher: Buch und Zeit Verlagsgesellschaft.
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation. Elbe – Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .
- Waldemar Trojca: Soviet flying ace 1941–1945. (= History of the Great Patriotic War ), VDM, Zweibrücken 2019, ISBN 978-3-86619-152-5 .