Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1943-1969)

An aircraft mechanic loads ammunition.

A cassette with loaded ammunition.

Pilot Pokryshkin A.I. supervises the work of mechanics checking the chassis of a fighter in 1945. Panorama of the plane of Pokryshkin's plane with patched holes.

Pokryshkin sits in the cockpit of the P-39 Airacobra fighter.

Pokryshkin closes the cockpit door, checks the locks.

The propeller rotates.

Pokryshkin's plane begins its takeoff run.

Pokryshkin's plane passes under the autobahn bridge.

The front landing gear of the plane during the takeoff run.

Pokryshkin's plane takes off from the autobahn in the direction of Berlin.

Airfield support vehicles pass under the bridge.

Officers watch the bombing.

Pokryshkin's plane taxis to the parking lot after landing.

Pokryshkin climbs out of the cockpit onto the plane, unfastens the parachute.

Mechanics and pilots near Pokryshkin's plane.

Pokryshkin, among his comrades, smokes near the plane and talks about his impressions of the flight.

Glowing searchlights of the airfield's air defense.

Laying the metal covering of the airfield at night.

Metal plates with holes are laid on the ground.

Berlin on a map of Germany through a magnifying glass.

Pokryshkin makes notes on the map.

Pokryshkin, sitting at the table, develops new techniques for air combat tactics and draws fire sectors.

A sign with a call sign at the communications center of the 2nd Air Army.

The commander of the 2nd Air Army, Colonel General Krasovsky S.A., reads the text on a telegraph tape at the communications center.

Krasovsky's face.

The text of Krasovsky's order to the commander of the air division, Colonel Pokryshkin, on a telegraph tape.

Pokryshkin reads Krasovsky's order.

The telegraph operator types the text of Pokryshkin's response to the army commander.

The text of Pokryshkin's response on a telegraph tape.

Fighters in flight.

Il-2 attack aircraft with running engines at the airfield before taking off on a combat mission (panorama).

The attack aircraft begins its takeoff run.

Pokryshkin directs the actions of his division units over the radio.

Fighters on the runway.

Pokryshkin and the division headquarters officers synchronize their watches while standing by the aircraft.

The pilots walk across the airfield to their combat vehicles.

Pokryshkin gets into the cockpit.

Pokryshkin in the cockpit.

Giving the command to take off with signal flares.

Pokryshkin's fighter taking off.

Fighters taking off.

German bombers approaching the target.

Air battles.

Downed aircraft burning out on the ground.

The burning corpse of a German pilot.

Wreckage of a downed aircraft in a stream of water.

Pokryshkin climbs out of the cockpit of his fighter after a combat sortie, his comrades meet him, congratulate him on another victory, and begin to rock him.

Pokryshkin's faces and his comrades congratulating him.

Shvernik N.M. presents Pokryshkin with the third Gold Star in the Kremlin on September 9, 1944. The officers present applaud.

One of the officers adjusts the Gold Star on Pokryshkin's tunic.

The seal on Pokryshkin's award certificate.

A sculptor works on a bust of Pokryshkin.

Articles about Pokryshkin in the Soviet and foreign press.

Bust of Pokryshkin.

Pilots carry Pokryshkin in their arms.

People gather for a ceremonial rally in honor of Pokryshkin.

The faces of children greeting Pokryshkin.

Pokryshkin accepts a bouquet of flowers from a pioneer.

Panorama of the tribune of the rally in honor of Pokryshkin.

The face of Pokryshkin's mother.

Pokryshkin waves goodbye from the door of a passenger plane.

The plane with Pokryshkin on board begins taxiing along the airfield.

Panorama of the battlefield with advancing infantry.

Airplanes fly over advancing tanks.

Infantry advances.

Soviet attack aircraft attack ground targets.

Panorama of a destroyed city block (top).

View of a destroyed house.

Attack aircraft attack ground targets, panorama of part of a destroyed city block in one of the German cities.

Burning debris of buildings.

Panorama of city blocks during bombing by Soviet aircraft (top).

Soviet aircraft in flight.

Pokryshkin supervises engineering work on the arrangement of a new field airfield at a theodolite.

Soviet soldiers equip defensive positions around the new field airfield.

Pokryshkin gives instructions to his subordinates on the arrangement of the airfield.

A fighter moves along the airfield to the parking lot.

Panorama of part of the territory of the airfield support battalion.

Pokryshkin A.I. accepts congratulations from his comrades at the plane after returning from another combat mission.

Commander of the 8th Air Defense Army, Colonel General Pokryshkin, talks to pilots at the airfield of one of the air regiments in 1964-1968, fighters fly over the airfield.

Pokryshkin talks to pilots, pilots' faces (panorama).

Pokryshkin's face.

Pokryshkin talks to the commander of one of the air regiments.

Pokryshkin walks along the airfield with pilots.

Pokryshkin talks to pilots at the airfield, watches jet fighters take off.

Pokryshkin's face speaking at a ceremonial night rally in 1944. Pokryshkin rides in a car in the front passenger seat along the streets of the city.

Pokryshkin among officers in the reading room of the library.

Pokryshkin says goodbye to his wife after the end of the ceremonial meeting, before flying to the front.