Biplane fighter aces

Soviet Union

At least 23 pilots from the Soviet Union became biplane fighter aces during the Second World War (and in the conflicts that preceded this war).

Biplane fighter aces:

Name Biplane victories Total no. of victories Note
Pavel Agafonov 5 5 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Aleksandr Baturin 6 9  
Aleksandr Berkutov 5 16  
Petr Bityutskiy 5 5  
Grigoriy Boychenko 5 5 All victories claimed at Khalkhin Gol
Yefim Fomin 5 5  
Ivan Kalabushkin 5 7  
Pavel Kaykov 6 6  
Petr Kozachenko 5 15  
Aleksandr Osadchiy 5 5 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Pavel Rychagov 6 6 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Anatoly Serov 8 8 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Aleksandr Shatskiy 5 5  
Alfons Shimenas 5 7 All biplane victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Vyacheslav Sirotin 6 21  
Yevgeniy Stepanov 8 8 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War and Khalkhin Gol
Stefan Voitenko 5 11  
Vasiliy Volovikov 5 5  
Mikhail Yakushin 6 6 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Vasiliy Yefremov 7 12  
Ivan Yeremenko 7 7 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Georgiy Zakharov 8 18 All biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War and the Sino-Japanese War


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Fighter aces with biplane claims:

Name Biplane victories Total no. of victories Note
Vladimir Abramov 1 7  
Vasiliy Adonkin 1 16  
Valentin Afanas'yev 1 5  
Georgiy Agafonov 4 6  
Petr Agafonov 3 6  
Adam Amkoladze 1 5  
Dmitriy Amosov 2 8  
Aleksandr Aniskin 4 9  
Aleksey Antonenko 1 shared 5  
Aleksandr Avdeyev 2 5  
Ivan Avekov 4 10  
Konstantin Babiy 1 8  
Andrey Baklan 2 20  
Ivan Balyuk 4 16  
Aleksey Baranov 2 9  
Aleksandr Belous 4 5  
Sergey Belyayev 2 shared 9  
Yevgeniy Bocharov 1 11  
Aleksandr Bondarenko 2 5  
Viktor Borodachev 2 24  
Lazar Chapchakhov 4 6  
Ivan Chernikov 3 7  
Fedor Chernyy 2 shared 5  
Pavel Chinyakov 4 8  
Ivan Chuchvaga 2 9  
Aleksey Churilin 3 26  
Georgiy Danilin 1 7  
Andrey Danilov 4 9  
Pavel Dankevich 1 shared 6  
Vasiliy Doroshin 1 7  
Ivan Dubovik 1 shared 11  
Konstantin Fatin 3 5  
Andrey Fedotov 2 20  
Mikhail Feoktistov 2 6  
Mikhail Galkin 1 5  
Petr Galkin 1 10  
Pavel Gavrilov 1 6  
Iosef Geibo 3 5  
Andrey Girich 2 17  
Georgiy Glotov 1 7  
Fedor Golubnichii 1 7  
Ivan Gorbachev 1 7  
Mikhail Gorbanev 1 7  
Ivan Grachev 1 shared 18  
Mikhail Grib 1 10  
Sergey Gritsevets 1 10 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War and Khalkhin Gol
Gerasim Grishayev 1 10  
Anton Gubenko 4 7 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War and the Sino-Japanese War
Sergey Gulyayev 1 5  
Khasan Ibatulin 4 shared 8  
Nikifor Ignat'yev 3 5  
Mikhail Ivanov 1 8  
Stepan Ivanov 1 9  
Viktor Ivanov 1 shared 5  
Yevgeniy Ivanov 1 10  
Timofey Ivliyev 3 5  
Ivan Izbinskiy 1 16  
Ivan Izokh 1 12  
Il’ya Kaynov 3 shared 6  
Polikarp Kal'chenko 2 11  
Viktor Karpukhin 1 7  
Vasiliy Kashtanov 1 7  
Pavel Kel'in 1 12  
Ivan Khaustov 2 10  
Aleksei Khlobystov 3 6  
Konstantin Kiryanov 1 shared 15  
Anatoliy Kislyakov 1 14  
Vladimir Kitayev 2 shared 5  
Aleksandr Klubov 3 31  
Vasiliy Averkyevich Knizhnik 1 5  
Mikhail Kologrivov 2 8  
Yemel'yan Kondrat 3 7 Biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Mikhail Korneyev 1 8  
Konstantin Korshunov 1 14  
Mikhail Kostikov 3 shared 10  
Aleksey Kovalev 1 6  
Nikolay Kovalev 2 9  
Dmitriy Kovtyulev 4 5  
Viktor Krupskiy 2 9  
Vasiliy Kubarev 1 15  
Georgii Kuzmin 3 21  
Nikolay Lavitskiy 2 20  
Ivan Leonov 4 shared 5  
Timofey Lobok 1 5  
Ivan Loginov 4 5  
Semen Lvov 2 shared 9  
Nikolai Makarenko 3 10  
Viktor Masich 1 12  
Boris Maslov 2 8  
Nikolai Mazhaiev 1 6  
Dmitriy Medvedev 1 14  
Fedor Milayev 2 13  
Mikhail Mirnov 1 5  
Aleksandr Mironenko 4 shared 6  
Sergey Mironov 1 8  
Nikolay Miroshnichenko 4 5 Biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Mikhail Nekrasov 2 shared 9  
Aleksey Nikitin 2 13  
Yakov Ovodov 3 20  
Ivan Pavlov 1 6  
Konstantin Pavlov 6 shared 6  
Pavel Pavlov 1 shared 7  
Sergey Petukhov 1 shared 8  
Aleksandr Platonov 2 6  
Ivan Podgorny 1 6  
Viktor Popov 1 6  
Nikolay Proshenkov 1 18  
Andrey Raspertov 1 5  
Grigoriy Rechkalov 3 56  
Aleksey Reshetov 1 35  
Dimitry Rodin 1 8  
Ivan Rybin 1 9  
Leonid Ryzhii 3 21  
Pavel Sakharov 1 shared 11  
Aleksandr Salov 1 5  
Leon Sarkisian 2 12  
Aleksandr Semenov 2 9  
Ivan Serbin 2 5  
Petr Sgibnev 1 16  
Yuri Shitov 4 12  
Fedor Skripchenko 1 8  
Aleksey Smirnov 1 35  
Vasiliy Smirnov 3 6 Biplane victories claimed at Khalkhin Gol
Nikolay Sobolev 2 10  
Vasiliy Soldatov 1 6  
Aleksandr Surkov 8 shared 5  
Nikolay Svitenko 1 6  
Vasiliy Tereshchenko 2 7  
Nikolay Trofimov 1 15  
Ivan Tsapov 7 shared 11  
Fedor Vasilenko 2 6  
Ivan Videnkin 1 shared 6  
Aleksandr Yakimov 2 shared 7 Biplane victories claimed at Khalkhin Gol
Dmitriy Yermakov 2 27  
Vasiliy Zaytsev 2 16  
Georgiy Zhidov 1 16  
Georgii Zhuikov 2 11  
Mikhail Zhukov 2 7  
Sergey Zhukovskiy 1 8  
Boris Zhurin 1 9  
Matvey Zotov 2 19  
Ivan Zudilov 1 26  

Fighter pilots with biplane claims:

Name Biplane victories Total no. of victories Note
Nikolay Abramchuk 2 4  
Ivan Afanasenkov 2 2  
Viktor Alagurov 8 shared 3  
Aleksandr Alekseyev 1 shared 2  
Timofey Amel'chenko 2 4  
Konstantin Andreyev 1 1  
Samson Andreyev 1 3 Biplane victories claimed at Khalkhin Gol
Il’ya Anikeyev 2 2  
Dmitriy Anisimov 2 2  
Yevgeniy Antonov 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Aleksey Artamonov 3 3  
Ivan Artamonov 2 3 All biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Aleksandr Artemov 2 2  
Nikolay Artemyev 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Abram Ashkinazi 1 1  
Artavazd Avetisian 1 3  
Vasiliy Babushkin 2 2  
Balashov 1 shared 1 shared  
Viktor Barkovskiy 1 2  
Ivan Basov 2 4  
Gennadiy Belikov 1 2  
Ivan Belikov 1 4  
Konstantin Belorustsev 1 1  
Vasiliy Belous 3 3  
Georgiy Belyakov 1 1  
Petr Berlov 1 2  
Petr Biskup 3 4  
Pavel Bolshakov 1 4  
Bondarenko 1 shared 1 shared  
Ivan Borisov 1 1  
Lavrentiy Borisov 1 2  
Pavel Borisov 1 1  
Isaak Borokhov 1 4  
Evgeny Borovsky 3 3  
Pavel Brzhestovsky 1 2  
Vasiliy Bukhteev 1 2  
Sergei Bulkin 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Ivan But 1 1  
Leonid Butelin 2 2  
Arkadi Bystrov 3 3  
Boris Cherevko 1 1  
Nikolay Cherkasov 1 shared 1 shared  
A. Chistev 1 1  
Ivan Deikin 2 2  
Nikolai Derunov 2 shared 2  
Nikolay Dmitriyev 2 2  
Valentin Dodonov 1 2  
Doletskii 1 1  
Sergey Donchenko 2 2  
Ivan Drozdov 2 2  
Ivan Druzhkov 2 4  
Nikolay Dudin 2 2  
Aleksandr Dudnik 3 shared 4  
Mikhail Dunaytsev 1 2  
Aleksey Dushin 2 2 Victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Dyachenko 1 shared 1 shared  
Sergei Evladenko 1 shared 3  
Aleksandr Evstigneyev 1 shared 1 shared  
F. M. Fatkulin 2 shared 2 shared  
Georgiy Fedorov 2 shared 2  
Ivan Fedorov 2 2  
Vasiliy Fedorov 1 1  
Oleg Filatov 1 2  
Yakov Filimonov 1 2  
Il'ya Finn 1 shared 1 shared  
Vladimir Garanin 1 1 Victory claimed at Khalkhin Gol
Gavrilov 1 shared 1 shared  
Nikolay Gavrilov 2 2  
Viktor Gavrilov 1 1  
Ravvil Gibadullin 4 4  
Mikhail Gladkikh 1 3  
Vladimir Glebov 1 3  
Shota Gogmachadze 1 shared 1 shared  
Yakov Golishnikov 3 3  
Golubev 1 shared 1 shared  
Nikolay Gorbunov 3 3  
Ivan Gorelikov 1 shared 2  
Konstantin Gorin 2 2  
I. Goslov 1 shared 1 shared  
Petr Grachev 1 2  
Nikolay Grafov 1 1  
Boris Grebenkov 1 2  
Leonid Grekov 1 4  
Vasiliy Grishin 1 1  
Gromov 1 shared 1 shared  
Aleksandr Gruzdev 10 shared 10 shared  
Aleksandr Gubarev 2 2  
Mikhail Gurbanov 1 shared 1  
Petr Guzov 2 2  
Aleksey Ilyin 2 2  
Ivan Ilyin 4 shared 2  
Semen Indyk 1 shared 4  
Leonid Ivanov 2 2  
Nikolay Ivanov 2 2  
P. Ivanov 1 shared 1 shared  
Semen Ivanov 2 2  
Vasiliy Ivanov 3 3  
Pavel Kachalka 1 4  
Yuriy Kamerilov 2 shared 3  
Konstantin Kanteyev 1 2  
Yevgeniy Karatayev 2 shared 2  
Viktor Karelin 2 4  
Nikolay Karpenko 2 shared 2 shared  
Nikolay Karpov 1 4  
Ivan Kasatkin 1 1  
Ivan Kashirkin 6 shared 3  
Aristotel' Kavtaradze 1 1  
Aleksandr Ketov 2 4 Biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Aleksandr Khalutin 1 2  
Vasiliy Khitrin 1 1  
Leonid Khomutov 1 shared 1 shared  
Sergei Khoteev 1 1  
Nikolay Khromov 1 2  
M. A. Kochmala 2 2  
Konkin 1 1  
Ivan Konovchenko 3 4  
Adam Kontsevoy 1 shared 4  
Ivan Kopets 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Petr Kopeykin 3 4  
Vladimir Koreshkov 3 shared 5 shared  
Aleksandr Korobitzin 1 1  
Aleksey Korochantsev 1 4  
Nikolai Korolev 2 2  
Vasiliy Korolev 1 2  
Walter Korouzom 1 shared 1 shared Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Mikhail Vasilhevich Kotyhov 3 3 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Anton Kovalevskii 3 3 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Ivan Kovtun 1 1  
Karp Kovtun 1 1 Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Nikolay Kozlov 1 2 Victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Mitrofan Krasnolutskiy 1 1  
Grigoriy Kraynov 5 shared 2  
Kruchkov 1 shared 1 shared  
Kucherenko 1 shared 1 shared  
M. M. Kulakom 1 1  
Vadim Kulikov 1 shared 4  
Leonid Kuldin 1 1  
Grigoriy Kupcha 1 1  
Vasiliy Kuroedov 1 shared 1 shared  
Viktor Kustov 3 shared 1 All biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
N. Kutsheryaviy 1 shared 1 shared  
Yuriy Kuvshinov 5 shared 2  
Aleksandr Kuzmenko 1 1  
Petr Kuzmin 2 2  
Viktor Kuznetsov 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Lazarev 1 1  
Aleksey Lazukin 1 1  
Tikhon Lebedev 2 2  
Tikhon Ledenev 1 1  
Petr Likin 1 shared 3  
Mark Lipin 2 4  
Vladimir Litvinenko 1 1  
Petr Lobkovsky 3 3  
Arkadiy Lodvikov 1 shared 2  
Fedor Lyapin 1 2  
Mikhail Machabeli 1 2  
Ivan Makarenko 2 2  
Sergey Makarov 1 2  
Semen Makeyev 6 shared 1  
Mikhail Maksimov 3 3  
Viktor Makutin 1 1  
Vasiliy Mal'tsev 1 1  
Georgiy Marchenko 1 1  
Markov 1 shared 1 shared  
S. B. Masnikov 1 shared 1 shared  
Viktor Matyunin 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Vasiliy Migunov 5 shared 1  
Vladimir Mikhalev 1 4  
P. Mikhlyuk 1 shared 1 shared  
Ivan Minayev 12 shared 1  
Vladimir Minayev 3 3  
Vladimir Motylev 2 2  
N. P. Mozhaev 1 1  
Grigoriy Murzin 1 1  
Sergey Murzin 3 3  
Viktor Nadeyev 2 2  
Nikolay Naumov 1 shared 2  
Sergey Nechaev 1 1  
Aleksandr Nikolayev 3 3 All victories claimed at Khalkhin Gol
Nizhnik 1 shared 1 shared  
Ivan Odintsov 1 2  
Abram Olshanskiy 2 shared 2 shared  
Konstantin Opasov 1 1 Victory claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Aleksandr Osipenko 1 1 Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Petr Ovsyannikov 3 4  
Timofey Ovsyannikov 15 shared 1 Biplane victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Aleksandr Pachin 1 1  
Nikolay Panteleev 1 1  
Nikolay Pavlov 1 1  
Vladimir Peshkov 2 2  
Ivan Petrov 1 4  
Stepan Petrov 1 2  
Yevgeniy Petrov 1 3  
Nikolai Petrukhin 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Dmitriy Petrukhin 3 shared 2  
Andrey Petrunin 9 shared 4 Biplane victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Pidyukov 1 1  
Aleksandr Piskunov 3 3 All victories claimed at Khalkhin Gol
M. N. Piskunov 1 1  
Fedor Plotko 3 3  
Sergey Plygunov 1 1  
Ivan Polyakh 1 3  
I. I. Popov 4 shared 4 shared  
Vyacheslav Popov 1 shared 1 shared Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Anton Povitskiy 1 1  
Petr Povoroznikov 1 1  
Petr Pumpur 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Grigoriy Pushkin 1 1  
Vladimir Puzeikin 1 shared 1 shared Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Konstantin Remizov 2 3  
Nikolay Repnikov 1 3  
Romanov 1 shared 1 shared  
Aleksandr Rozhdestvenskiy 3 3 All victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War
Aleksandr Rumyantsev 1 4  
Petr Ryabtsev 1 1  
Aleksey Rybalov 1 1  
Leonid Rybkin 1 2 Biplane victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Vladimir Salomatin 1 1  
Peter Samokhin 2 shared 2 shared  
Sardina 1 shared 1 shared Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Savosin 1 shared 1 shared  
Mikhail Savtchenko 2 2  
Mikhail Selyankin 1 3  
Dmitry Semenikhin 1 shared 1 shared  
Sergey Senkevich 1 1  
Aleksey Sevastyanov 1 1  
Grigoriy Shakbaz 1 1  
Shalimov 1 shared 3 shared  
Vasiliy Shapovalov 2 2  
Vladimir Shavrov 1 1  
Nikolay Shepetov 2 2  
Vasily Shkomov 2 4  
Nikolay Shmelkov 4 4 Biplane victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Aleksey Sidorovskiy 1 3  
Anatoliy Sitnikov 2 2  
Aleksey Slutskov 4 4  
Konstantin Sokol 1 3  
Grigoriy Sokolov 4 4  
Boris Solomatin 1 4  
Konstantin Solov'yev 2 2  
Yury Spitsyn 1 1  
Boris Surin 3 3  
Aleksey Svetlov 1 2  
Nikita Syusyukalov 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Tarasov 1 shared 1 shared  
Vakkh Teplyakov 2 3  
Vasiliy Terent’yev 1 3  
Foma Tikhomirov 1 1  
V. D. Tikhomirov 1 1  
Yakov Titaev 2 3  
Tkachenko 1 2  
Aleksandr Tormozov 1 1  
Aleksandr Trofimov 1 1  
Trubitsin 1 shared 1 shared  
V. Tsebenko 1 1  
Ivan Tumanov 2 2  
Viktor Udovenko 1 shared 1  
S. I. Uvarov 1 1  
Nikolay Vasil’yev 2 4  
Pavel Vasil’yev 3 shared 3  
Yefim Vasil’yev 2 2  
Dmitriy Vichugin 1 1  
Viktor Vilchik 2 4  
Vladimir Vinda 2 3  
Maksim Vinichenko 2 2  
I. A. Volovodov 1 1  
Ivan Vorob’yev 1 shared 2  
Nikolay Vovk 2 2  
Yachmenev 2 2  
Ruf Yazvitskiy 1 2  
Anatoliy Yeliseyev 1 shared 2  
Aleksandr Yelkhov 2 2  
Yeltsov 3 3  
Yevgeniy Yerlykin 2 2 Victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Nikolay Yeroshin 1 1  
I. L. Yukhimovich 2 2  
Mikhail Yurkin 4 shared 2  
Nikolai Yurkin 2 2  
Ivan Zavgorodniy 2 2  
K. Zcherdev 2 2  
A. N. Zeitsoff 1 shared 1 shared Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War
Leonid Zhdanov 2 3  
Ivan Zheltov 1 4  
Aleksandr Zhgun 1 2  
Boris Zhukov 1 1  
Georgiy Zhuravlyov 1 1  
Zotov 1 1  

More eminent biplane information from Black Cross/Red Star Volume I by Christer Bergström and Andrey Mikhailov.