Aleksandr Gubarev was born in 1916.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, leitenant Gubarev served in 12 IAP, which was operating on the South-Western Front and equipped with I-153s.

The regiment was withdrawn to the rear for retraining on 9 October.
Between October and January 1942, they retrained on LaGG-3s.

12 IAP was renamed to 486 IAP on 26 December 1941.

On 15 January they returned to combat operations on the Crimean Front.

Gubarev was nominated to the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union on 12 March 1942 but was awarded the Order of the Red Banner instead.

Gubarev was wounded on a combat mission on 2 May 1942 and hospitalised.

After recovery and from 16 July 1942, he worked as eskadrilya CO in 16 ZAP and head of courses for the commanders in 3 ZABR before returning to the front.

Between November 1944 and March 1945, he served in the HQ of 7 GIAD.

In March 1945, he was posted to 115 GIAP, where he remained until the end of the war.

Gubarev ended the war with 2 biplane victories.
These had been claimed during 230 combat missions.

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1941
1	22/06/41		1	Ju 88	Destroyed	I-153		South-Western Front	12 IAP
	14/08/41		1/?	Ju 87	Shared destroyed	I-153		South-Western Front	12 IAP
2	30/08/41		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	I-153		South-Western Front	12 IAP

Biplane victories: 2 and 1 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 2 and 1 shared destroyed.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov