List of World War II aces from the Soviet Union
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from the Soviet Union.
Name | Total | Individual victories |
Group victories |
Notes | References | |
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Grigory Rechkalov | 65 | 61 | 4 | Previous estimate was 56 solo and 5 shared.[1] | [2] | |
Ivan Kozhedub | 64 | 64 | — | Estimates vary slightly, but all credit him with at least 60 solo. | [3][4] | |
Nikolai Gulayev | 60 | 55 | 5 | — | [5] | |
Kirill Yevstigneyev | 56 | 53 | 3 | — | [6] | |
Dmitry Glinka | 50 | 50 | — | — | [7] | |
Alexander Pokryshkin | 49 | 45 | 4 | Estimates widely vary; recent estimates tend to be less than official Soviet accounts. | [8] | |
Amet-khan Sultan | 49 | 30 | 19 | — | [9][10] | |
Aleksandr Koldunov | 47 | 46 | 1 | — | [11] | |
Nikolai Skomorokhov | 47 | 44 | 3 | Other sources indicate two shared kills[12] | [13] | |
Arseny Vorozheykin | 46 | 45 | 1 | Also gained aerial victories in the battle for Khalkhin Gol | [14] | |
Andrey Borovykh | 46 | 29 | 17 | — | [15] | |
Vladimir Serov | 45 | 39 | 6 | Including one aerial ramming. Killed in action 26 June 1944 | [16] | |
44 | 44 | ? | Killed in an accident on 29 January 1945. | [17] | ||
Vladimir Lavrinenkov | 43 | 36 | 7 | Some sources indicate 11 shared kills.[18] | [19] | |
Aleksey Ryazanov | 43 | 31 | 12 | Some sources indicate 16 instead of 12 shared kills.[20] | [21] | |
Fyodor Arkhipenko | 43 | 28 | 15 | |||
41 | 41 | — | [22] | |||
Mikhail Pivovarov | 41 | 40 | 1 | [23] | ||
Ivan Stepanenko | 41 | 32 | 9 | — | [24] | |
Vitaly Popkov | 40 | 40 | — | — | [25][26] | |
Ivan Babak | 40 | 35 | 5 | — | [27] | |
Pyotr Gnido | 40 | 34 | 6 | [28] | ||
39 | 32 | 7 | [29] | |||
Pavel Kamozin | 38 | 34 | 4 | — | [30] | |
37 | 37 | — | Including one aerial ramming | [31] | ||
Aleksey Smirnov | 36 | 35 | 1 | — | [32] | |
Aleksandr Karpov | 36 | 27 | 9 | — | [33] | |
Sergey Lugansky | 35 | 34 | 1 | Other sources indicate 36 solo and two group. | [34] | |
Aleksey Alelyukhin | 34 | 28 | 6 | — | [35] | |
Vladimir Bobrov | 34 | 23 | 11 | — | [36] | |
34 | 33 | 1 | [37] | |||
Aleksandr Klubov | 34 | 31 | 3 | Killed in accident 1 November 1944 | [38] | |
Pavel Babaylov | 33 | 27 | 6 | — | [39] | |
Nikolai Zelenov | 33 | 24 | 9 | Killed in training accident 29 June 1944 | — | [40] |
32 | 31 | 1 | [41] | |||
Pavel Golovachev | 31 | 30 | 1 | — | [42] | |
Aleksey Solomatin | 29 | 13 | 16 | Or six shared | [43] | |
Nikolai Gusarov | 27 | 16 | 11 | — | [44] | |
Ivan Sytov | 28 | 25 | 3 | — | [45] | |
Pavel Kutakhov | 28 | 12 | 16 | — | [46] | |
Dmitry Medvedev | 29 | 14 | 15 | — | [47] | |
Igor Kaberov | 28 | 10 | 18 | — | [48] | |
Boris Kovzan | 28 | 28 | — | Four individual kills were aerial rammings. Ace status disputed; not listed in Bykov's collection of aces. | [49] | |
Sergey Safronov | 28 | 24 | 4 | — | [50] | |
Pyotr Pokryshev | 27 | 18 | 9 | Other sources credit more unconfirmed kills.[51] | [52] | |
Ivan Gorbunov | 25 | 24 | 1 | — | [53] | |
Konstantin Krasavin | 25 | 22 | 3 | — | [54] | |
Boris Safonov | 25 | 20 | 5 | Western sources typically indicate a higher tally.[55] | [56][57] | |
Mikhail Baranov | 24 | 24 | — | Killed in training accident 15 January 1943 | [58] | |
Vasily Zaitsev | 24 | 24 | — | Also credited with having 34 personal and 19 shared victories.[59] | [60] | |
Yevgeny Savitsky | 24 | 22 | 2 | Or eighteen solo and one shared | [61] | |
Lev Shestakov | 24 | 16 | 8 | Does not include two solo plus one shared victory from Spanish Civil War. | [62] | |
Aleksey Khlobystov | 24 | 6 | 18 | Some estimates credit 7 solo and 24 shared consisting of three aerial rammings.[63] | [64] | |
Leonid Bykovets | 23 | 19 | 4 | — | [65] | |
Mikhail Kuznetsov | 23 | 19 | 4 | Possibly one shared. | [66] | |
23 | 13 | 10 | — | [67] | ||
Fyodor Shikunov | 22 | 21 | 1 | Killed in action 15 March 1945 | [68] | |
Andrei Girich | 21 | 17 | 4 | — | [69] | |
Chichiko Bendeliani | 21 | 9 | 12 | — | [70] | |
Adil Guliyev | 20 | 20 | — | — | [71] | |
Pyotr Bazanov | 20 | 18 | 2 | — | [72] | |
20 | 18 | 2 | — | [73] | ||
Alim Baisultanov | 18 | 5 | 13 | — | [74] | |
Georgy Baevsky | 19 | 19 | — | — | [75] | |
18 | 18 | — | Killed in action 4 May 1944 | [76] | ||
Alexander Kabiskoy | 17 | 17 | — | — | [77] | |
17 | 15 | 2 | — | [78] | ||
Semyon Bychkov | 15 | 10 | 5 | Taken prisoner, served in Luftwaffe, and executed by USSR for treason on 4 November 1946. | [79] | |
15 | 5 | 10 | Killed in action 30 November 1941 | [80] | ||
Stepan Bakhayev | 15 | 12 | 3 | Went on to become an ace again in the Korean war | [81] | |
Vasily Afonin | 13 | 11 | 2 | Possibly 14 individual and 3 group. | [82] | |
Emir Chalbash | 12 | 8 | 4 | Some credit 11 solo and 6 shared. | [83] | |
Aleksandr Babaev | 10 | 9 | 1 | — | [84] | |
Georgy Lobov | 10 | 7 | — | Some credit 15 solo and 8 shared. | [85] | |
Lydia Litvyak | 8 | 5 | 3 | Does not include one observation balloon. Counts vary significantly. | [86] | |
Alexey Maresyev | 7 | 7 | — | Other sources report up to 11 shootdowns | [87] | |
Aleksandr Avdeyev | 5 | 5 | — | Killed in action 12 August 1942 | [88] |
See also
- Category:Soviet World War II flying aces
- List of World War II aces by country
References
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 274.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 276.
- ^ Morgan 2013, p. 82.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 17.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 317–318.
- ^ Morgan 2013, p. 88.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 254–255.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 27.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 40–41.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 45.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 559.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 1104–1005.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 317.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 84.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 73.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1083.
- ^ Bodrikhin 2017, p. 272.
- ^ Mellinger 2014, p. 88.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 187.
- ^ Mellinger 2005, p. 51.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 280.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 812.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 933.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 334.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 261.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 961-962.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 74–75.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 260–261.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 700.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 491.
- ^ Bykov 2008, p. 1229.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1116.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 149.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 192.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 36.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 133–134.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 869–870.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 533–534.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 73-74.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 432–433.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 1176–1177.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 100.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1132-1133.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 322.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1168-1169.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 181.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 770.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 473.
- ^ Mellinger 2008, p. 29.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1051-1052.
- ^ Mellinger 2006, p. 30.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 251.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 280-281.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 617.
- ^ Mellinger 2012, p. 34.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 1050–1051.
- ^ Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 298.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 90.
- ^ Mellinger 2014, p. 75.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 418.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1034.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 1336–1337.
- ^ Mellinger 2012, p. 32–34.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1255.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 180.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 637.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 529.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 921.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 251.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 120-121.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 650.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 78.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1367.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 80.
- ^ Bykhov 2014, p. 77.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 17.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 473-474.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 644.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 183-184.
- ^ Bykov 2014, pp. 827–828.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 102.
- ^ Bykov 2008, p. 35.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 1278.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 73.
- ^ Bykov 2014.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 698-699.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 751.
- ^ Bykov 2014, p. 22.
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