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  Modeling the VVS: Pokrishkin's MiGs
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin was born in Novosibirsk on March the 6th 1913.
Pokryshkin himself becoming an expert at high-speed ambush attacks from above, making a single high speed run, closing in to point blank range before firing, then using the speed built up in the dive to clear the area and achieve the altitude required to make another run if need be.
Pokryshkin would eventually exchange the MIG for the Bell P-39 Airacobra and would continue to master the invaders of his mother land until he was grounded at which time his personnel score was 59.
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  Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Покрышкин March 6, 1913–November 13, 1985) was a marshal of the Soviet Air Force.
Pokryshkin had been made a famous hero by the propaganda machine, and he was not allowed to fly as often because of fear of him being killed.
Aleksandr Pokryshkin was awarded four Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov (2nd class), two Orders of the Red Star, a number of medals, and foreign orders.
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 Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin
Pokryshkin’s squadron were already flying Yak-1s as top cover for MiGs with bombs which were flown by the other squadrons of the regiment in the ground attack role.
Pokryshkin noticed that before withdrawal at their airfield there were no machines but his lonely MiG-3 “in yellow putty”; the regiment of Major Dzusov refused to take this plane as they did with Yak-1s.
Pokryshkin realized that the vertical maneuver is always the attacking maneuver of the faster and heavier aircraft, whereas the horizontal maneuver is always the defending maneuver of the slower and lighter aircraft.
mig3.sovietwarplanes.com /mig3/pokryshkin.html   (4645 words)

  
 Aleksandr Pokryshkin signed photo Russian Ace
He died on November 13, 1985, and is buried in Moscow
See a signed Pokryshkin note that we sold last year
Handwritten large note (12.25" x 8.5") by A. Pokryshkin addressed to the auditorium
www.leisuregalleries.com /pokryshkin.html   (86 words)

  
 Aviation Medals - The Soviet Military Awards Page Forum
The other, Aleksandr Pokryshkin, had flown from the German invasion in the summer of 1941 through the end of the war, during which time he scored 59 aerial victories in MiG3s, Bell Airacobras, Lavochkin La-5s and Yakovlev Yak-9Us.
In contrast to Aleksandr Pokryshkin, Ivan Kozhedub is associated with a single fighter type, the series of radialengine, wooden aircraft designed by Semyen Lavochkin.
Pokryshkin would eventually develop to the second most successful fighter pilot on the Allied side during WW 2.
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 Sergei Ivanovich Mosin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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 Netwings File Library > CFS2 Skins > Other
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin, 16th regiment (16 GIAP), summer 1944.
Pokryshkin was an Ace with 55 victories (at the time he flew this aircraft).
The victory stars began to become popular in 1944, and went on to be the present day national insignia.
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 Re: Book review: Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union and the Air War in Korea
Aleksandr Pokryshkin, commander of the 9th Gv.IAD at the time, the issue of Barkhorn’s downing was brought up.
After consulting the logs of the 16th Gv.IAP for that date, when he was that regiment’s commander, Pokryshkin found one of his many infraction reports that he often made out concerning each of the pilots under his command.
As the need to replenish the units of the 5th VA with new units, aircraft, and aircrews, and to implement the combat training of these new aircrews to the latest combat tactics and techniques, Popkov’s convoy system ensured a relatively safe environment behind the Soviet front lines for these very important missions to be accomplished.
www.korean-war.com /Archives/2003/07/msg00006.html   (3246 words)

  
 Moscow Hostage Deaths - JRL 1-16-04
On 6 November 2002, a meeting was held in Moscow of the Public Committee to Investigate the Circumstances Behind the Explosions of the Apartment Buildings in Moscow and the Ryazan Exercises (all of which occurred in September 1999).
Trepashkin was able to get out the information that the pistol (supposedly stolen in Chechnya) had been planted in his car and that the regular police had admitted to him that they had acted at the behest of the FSB.
In addition, the well-connected investigative journalist Aleksandr Khinshtein has reported that some eight of the women suicide bombers were able to take up residence in a former "military city [gorodok]" in Moscow, located on Ilovaiskaya Street, not far from the Dubrovka theater.
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 A Question of Aces - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This ace favored the P-39 over locally produced aircraft, and was one of the top scorers of his country.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin; "...was once denied a third award of the Hero of the Soviet Union, because that would have glorified foreign manufacturing."
This pilot was scheduled to return home when he opted for one last mission, at which point he was shot down and became a POW.
www.globalaffairs.org /forum/showthread.php?t=45194   (1407 words)

  
 List of Russians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov (1720?-1758), inventor of the Russian porcelain
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 -1982), commanded the 62nd Russian army to victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov, commander-in-chief during the Crimean War
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 Vladimir Bushin __ VELIKAYA OTECHESTVENNAYA GLAZAMI TRISLUZHNIKOV
V poslednikh chislakh noyabrya v Londone pri neyasnykh obstoyatel'stvakh umer izvestnyy Aleksandr Litvinenko, bezhavshiy na Zapad podpolkovnik FSB, svyazannyy s Berezovskim.
Aleksandr Ivanovich stal dvazhdy Geroem, a posle voyny dosluzhilsya do Glavnogo marshala aviatsii, do zamestitelya ministra oborony".
Konechno, Pokryshkin byl pervym i voeval s 22 iyunya protiv luchshikh lyetchikov Lyuftvaffe, no s drugoy storony, Kozhedub na dve-tri sbitykh mashiny protivnika prevzoshel Pokryshkina i dostig etogo za bolee korotkiy srok.
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 Chechnya news
This article is said by agentura.ru to have first appeared in the newspaper "Den," 3 December 2003.
The same claim is made in Sergei Topol, Aleksandr Zheglov, Olga Allenova, "Antrakt posle terakta," "Kommersant," 23 October 2003.
Terkibaev was killed on 15 December 2003 in an automobile crash that some commentators found to be suspicious.
www.hrvc.net /news2004/17-1-04.html   (10705 words)

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