South-Western Front, Kharkov direction. The eskadrilya commander kapitan Viktor Gusarov gives orders. Pictured (left to right): starshiy serzhant Ivan Borovoy, leytenant Zheltov, kaptain Viktor Gusarov, leytenant Fedor Bobylkin and leytenant Aleksey Reshetov.
These five pilots from 6 IAP claimed a shared "He 113" on 16 May 1942 together with a sixth unknown pilot. The five pictured pilots totally claimed 15 enemy aircraft destroyed between 11 to 17 May 1942.
Photo by L. Leonidov (TASS) via Soviet Aces 1936-1953.

Ivan Zheltov was born in 1917.

Leytenant Zheltov served in 6 IAP from August 1941 on the South-Western Front. With this unit he initially flew Polikarpov I-153s.

On 6 November 1941, he was decorated with the Order of the Red Star.

In March 1942, 6 IAP re-equipped with Yak-1s and was back on operations from 31 March on the South-Western Front

Leytenant Zheltov claimed a shared "He 113" on 16 May. This was claimed together with kapitan Viktor Gusarov (eskadrilya commander), leytenant Aleksey Reshetov, leytenant Fedor Bobylkin, starshiy serzhant Ivan Borovoy and one unknown pilot north-east of Chuguyev.
Kapitan Gusarov (totally 6 victories) was wounded in an air combat on the same day (same combat?) and suffered additional injuries while landing. He died of his wounds on 18 May.

On 28 May a group of pilots (including Zheltov) and aircraft from 6 IAP was transferred to 273 IAP.

He was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner on 17 June 1942.

Zheltov was killed in air combat on 23 June 1942.

At the time of his death, Zheltov was credited with 1 biplane victory and a total of 4.
These had been claimed during 154 combat missions (as of 16 May 1942).

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1941
1	01/09/41		1	Ju 88	Destroyed	I-153			6 IAP
	1942
	01/09/421		1/2	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	Yak-1			6 IAP
2	15/05/42		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	Yak-1			6 IAP
	16/05/42		1/6	He 113	Shared destroyed	Yak-1		NE Chuguyev	6 IAP
3	19/05/42		1	He 111	Destroyed	Yak-1			6 IAP
4	26/05/42		1	Hs 126	Destroyed	Yak-1			6 IAP

Biplane victories: 1 destroyed.
TOTAL: 4 and 2 shared destroyed.

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