Vladimir Motylev was born in 1916.

He graduated from Borisoglebskaya flight school in 1938.

In July 1941, mladshiy leitenant Motylev was posted to 29 IAP. This unit was at the time equipped with Polikarpov I-153s and operated on the Western Front.

On 6 December 1941, 29 IAP became a guard’s unit and renamed 1 GIAP.

Between 9 December 1941 and 8 January 1942, 1 GIAP retrained on Hurricanes.

On 14 March, the unit retruned to combat on the Kalinin Front with their Hurricanes.

On 26 April 1942, leitenant Motylev was killed in air combat.

At the time of his death, Motylev was credited with 2 biplane victories.
This had been claimed during 128 combat missions as of 15 November 1941.

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1941
	07/10/41		1/2	Bf 110	Shared destroyed	I-153		Western Front	29 IAP
1	27/10/41		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	I-153		Western Front	29 IAP
2	04/11/41		1	Hs 126	Destroyed	I-153		Western Front	29 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