Soviet dive-bombers Pe-2
Commander of a squadron of Red Army 154th fighter aviation regiment senior lieutenant Petr Pokryishev
Crew of a bomber aircraft before taking off to combat mission  Crew members of a bomber get ready to a combat flight, April 1945. Photo by Boris Myasnikov/TASS
Grigory Semenovich Tsygankov (right)
V. Khitrin (2nd from the right) with his comrades in arms
Nikolay Tsatsyn
Alexander Alexeyevich Shapovalov
Nikolay Vasilyevich Shibanov
Kolkhozniks of agricultural cartel “Kzil Bayrak” in Dubyazskiy region, Tatar Soviet Republic, handover airplane to Red Army. 1941-1945. Tatar Soviet Republic
First independent flight by student of skydiving and gliding club of the Society for the Assistance of Defense, Aircraft and Chemical Construction (abbreviated as OSOAVIAKHIM). Tatar Soviet Republic
Anatoly Khalizev
Nikolay Tsatsyn
конец 1930-х гг.

Nikolay Tsatsyn

Pilot, Guards junior lieutenant, navigator of the 15th Guards Division, Nikolai Tsatsyn (1924-1944) in the Red Army since 1940. 85 night sorties were successfully performed on the B-25. In 1944, when bombing military industrial facilities in Finland, Nikolai, being a target illuminator, in spite of bad weather conditions, illuminated the target. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and went missing on 25 June 1944.

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