Håkans Aviation page - Biplane Fighter Aces

Biplane fighter aces
Soviet Union

At least 18 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

G. I. Agafonov 5 5

Aleksandr Avdeyev 12 13 Top Soviet biplane fighter ace

Aleksandr Baturin 9 18

Petr Bityutskiy 5 5

Lazar Chapchakhov 5 11

Iosef Geibo 7 12

Leonid Ivanov 5 5

Ivan Kalabushkin 5 15

Pavel Kaykov 6 6

Piotr Kozachenko 6 27

Alexandr Mironenko 9 18

Pavel Rychagov 6 6 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War

Anatoly Serov 8 8 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War

Konstantin Solovev 5 5

Yevgenii Stepanov 7 7 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War and Khalkin Gol

Mikhail Yakushin 5 5 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War

Vasiliy Yefremov 7 12

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 2 21

Vasiliy Adonkin 1 16

Aleksandr Aniskin 4 10

Ivan Balyuk 3 18

Viktor Borodachev 1 26

Alexei Churilin 1 30

Andrey Danilov 4 9

Mikhail Galkin 1 5

Pavel Gavrilov 1 19

Ivan Grachev 1 shared 18

Sergey Gritsevets 2 18 All victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War, the Spanish Civil War and Khalkin Gol

Anton Gubenko 4 7 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War and the Sino-Japanese War

Nikifor Ignatyev 3 8

Viktor Ivanov 1 20

Ivan Khaustov 2 10

Alexei Khlobystov 2 7

Anatoliy Kislyakov 1 17

Alexandr Klubov 4 31

Vasiliy Averkyevich Knizhnik 1 5

Viktor Krupskii 1 10

Pavel Kryukov 3 19

Vasiliy Kubarev 1 18

Georgii Kuzmin 3 21

Nikolay Lavitskiy at least 1 24

Nikolai Makarenko 3 10

Viktor Grigoryevich Masich 1 12

Nikolai Mazhaiev 1 6

Dmitriy Medvedev 3 14

Vladimir Mikhalev 3 6

Sergei Mironov 1 6

Mikhail Mudrov 1 30

Yakov Ovodov 1 19

Petr Pokryshev 3 38

Sergei Putyakov 3 5

Grigorii Rechkalov 3 56

Nikolay Repnikov 1 5

Alexei Reshetov 1 35

Leonid Ryzhii 3 21

M. F. Savtchenko 2 9

Aleksandr Semyonov 4 20

Alexandr Silantyev 1 8

Aleksey Smirnov 4 34

Ivan Tsapov 2 shared 22

Ivan Yeremenko 3 14 All victories claimed in the Spanish Civil War

Dimitrii Yermakov 2 27

Georgiy Zhidov 1 16

Sergey Zchukovskiy 4 5

Mikhail Zhukov 2 7

Fighter pilots with biplane claims:

Name Biplane victories Total no. of victories Note

Konstantin Andreev 1 1

Aleksey Artamonov 3 3

Alexandr Alekseevich Artemov 2 2

Victor Barkovsky 1 2

Konstantin Belorustsev 1 1

G. Belyakov 1 shared 1 shared

Petr Biskup 1 shared 1 shared

Ivan Borisov 1 1

Lavrentiy Borisov 1 shared 1 shared

Pavel Borisov 1 1

Leonid Butelin 2 2

Boris Cherevko 1 1

Nikolai Cherkasov 1 shared 1 shared

O. Chernikov 1 1

A. Chistev 1 1

Ivan Drozdov 2 2

Nikolai Dudin 2 2

Aleksey Dushin 2 2 Victories claimed in the Sino-Japanese War

Alexandr Evstigneev 1 shared 1 shared

Filimonov 1 shared 1 shared

Ilja Finn 1 shared 1 shared

Shota Gogmachadze 1 shared 1 shared

I. Goslov 1 shared 1 shared

Petr Grachev 1 1

Grafov 1 1

A. Gruzdev 1 shared 1 shared

Peter Guzov 1 2

Aleksey Ilyin 2 2

P. Ivanov 1 shared 1 shared

Nikolay Karpenko 2 shared 2 shared

Aristotel Kavtaradze 1 1

Aleksandr Khalutin 1 2

Leonid Khomutov 1 shared 1 shared

Khotejev 1 1

Alexandr Korobitzin 1 1

Nikolay Korolyov 2 shared 2 shared

Ivan Kovtun 1 1

Nikolay Kozlov 1 2 Victory claimed in the Sino-Japanese War

Mitrofan Krasnolutskiy 1 1

Kucherenko 1 shared 1 shared

M. M. Kulakom 1 1

Kuldin 1 1

Vasiliy Kuroedov 1 shared 1 shared

N. Kutsheryaviy 1 shared 1 shared

Petr Kuzmin 2 2

Aleksey Lazukin 1 1

Vladimir Vasilevich Litvinenko 1 1

Mikhail Machabeli 1 1

Mikhail Maksimov 3 3

Viktor Makutin 3 3

Markov 1 shared 1 shared

P. Mikhlyuk 1 shared 1 shared

Ivan Minayev 1 shared 2 shared

V. Minayev 1 1

N. P. Mozhaev 1 1

S. A. Necajev 1 1

I. D. Odintsov 1 2

Abram Olshanskiy 2 shared 2 shared

K. T. Opasov 1 1 Victory claimed in the Sino-Japanese War

Aleksandr Pachin 1 1

N. Panteleyev 1 1

Petrukhin 1 shared 1 shared

M. N. Piskunov 1 1

Plygunov 1 1

A. Povitskiy 1 1

Povoroznikov 1 1

Petr Ryabtsev 2 2

Vladimir Salomatin 1 1

Peter Samokhin 2 shared 2 shared

Savosin 1 shared 1 shared

Dmitry Semenikhin 1 shared 1 shared

Aleksey Sevastyanov 1 1

Grigoriy Shakbaz 1 1

Vasiliy Shapovalov 2 2

Vladimir Shavrov 1 1

Shishatskiy 1 1

Anatoliy Sitnikov 2 2

K. P. Sokol 1 1

Soldatov 1 1

Boris Surin 3 3

A. Svetlov 1 1

Tarasov 1 shared 1 shared

V. D. Tikhomirov 1 1

Tkachenko 1 2

Aleksandr Tormozov 1 1

Aleksandr Trofimov 1 1

Trubitsin 1 shared 1 shared

V. Tsebenko 1 1

Ivan Tumanov 2 2

S. I. Uvarov 1 1

I. A. Volovodov 1 1

Yachmenev 2 2

Yeltsov 3 3

I. L. Yukhimovich 2 2

Zavgorodniy 2 2

K. Zcherdev 2 2

A. N. Zeitsoff 1 shared 1 shared Victory claimed in the Spanish Civil War

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.