List of World War II aces from the Soviet Union

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from the Soviet Union. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country.

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Name Total Individual
victories		 Group
victories		 Notes References
Alexander Pokryshkin 65 59 6 Or 53 individual and 6 group victories[1] [2][3]
Ivan Kozhedub 62 62 — Top allied ace in terms of individual kills. Possibly 64 kills.[4] [5][6]
Grigoriy Rechkalov 61 56 5 — [1]
Nikolai Gulayev 60 55 5 — [7][8]
Kirill Yevstigneyev 56 53 3 Possibly 52 individual and 3 group.[9] [1]
Dmitri Glinka 50 50 — — [10][1][11]
Aleksandr Klubov 51 31 19 — [12]
Amet-khan Sultan 49 30 19 — [13][14]
Vladimir Lavrinenkov 46 35 11 — [15]
Nikolai Skomorokhov 46 44 2 — [16]
Alexander Koldunov 47 46 1 — [17][18][19]
Arseniy Vorozheykin 46 45 1 — [20][21]
Andrey Borovykh 46 32 14 — [22]
Vladimir Serov 45 39 6 Including one aerial ramming. Killed in action 26 June 1944 [23][24]
Fyodor Arkhipenko 44 30 14 — [25]
Sergey Lugansky 43 37 6 — [26]
Vitaly Popkov 42 41 1 Including one aerial ramming [27]
Pavel Kutakhov 42 14 28 — [28]
Ivan Babak 41 37 4 Possibly 36 individual and 6 group kills. [29][30]
Aleksi Solomatin 39 17 22 — [31]
Aleksei Khlobystov 39 6 33 Three individual kills were aerial rammings. [32]
Pavel Kamozin 38 34 4 — [33]
Ivan Sytov 38 34 4 — [34]
Aleksandr Karpov 37 30 7 — [35]
Alexey Smirnov 36 35 1 — [36]
Aleksey Alelyukhin 34 28 6 — [37]
Vladimir Bobrov 34 23 11 — [38]
Alexander Klubov 34 31 3 Killed in accident 1 November 1944 [39]
Pavel Golovachev 32 31 1 — [40]
Chichiko Bendeliani 32 12 20 — [41]
Pavel Babailov 31 27 4 Two individual kills were aerial rammings. [42][43]
Pyotr Pokryshev 31 24 7 — [44]
Nikolai Gusarov 29 15 14 — [45]
Dmitry Medvedev 29 14 15 — [46]
Igor Kaberov 29 11 18 — [47]
Boris Kovzan 28 28 — Four individual kills were aerial rammings. [48]
Sergei Safronov 28 24 4 — [49]
Mikhail Kuznetsov 27 19 8 — [50]
Pyotr Bazanov 28 22 6 — [51]
Konstantin Krasavin 25 21 4 — [52]
Boris Safonov 25 20 5 Possibly 25 individual and 14 group. Killed in action 30 May 1942[53] [54]
Mikhail Baranov 24 24 — Killed in training accident 15 January 1943 [55]
Vasily Zaitsev 24 24 — — [56]
Yevgeniy Savitskiy 24 22 2 — [57]
Lev Shestakov 24 16 8 Killed in action 13 March 1944 [58]
Leonid Bykovets 23 19 4 — [59]
Ivan Kleshchyov 23 13 10 — [60]
Andrei Girich 22 17 5 — [61]
Adil Guliyev 20 20 — — [62]
Nikolai Shutt 20 18 2 — [63]
Georgi Baevski 19 19 — — [64]
Grigory Kravchenko 19 19 — — [65]
Shamil Abdrashitov 18 18 — Killed in action 4 May 1944 [66]
Alexander Kabiskoy 17 17 — — [67]
Semyon Bychkov 17 17 — Taken prisoner, served in Luftwaffe, and executed by USSR for treason on 4 November 1946. [68]
Ivan Kuzmichyov 17 15 2 — [69]
Luka Muravitsky 15 5 10 Killed in action 30 November 1941 [70]
Stepan Bakhaiev 13 13 — Went on to become an ace again in the Korean war [71]
Vasily Afonin 13 11 2 Possibly 14 individual and 3 group. [72]
Sergey Gritsevets 12 11 1 Not including 30 victories in Spanish civil war [73]
Lydia Litvyak 11 7 5 Counts vary from 5 individual and 2 group to 12 individual [74][75]
Yekaterina Budanova 11 5 6 Killed in action 19 July 1943 [76]
Pyotr Petrov 10 10 — Killed in action 23 November 1941 by friendly fire. [77]
Konstantin Kokkinaki 10 10 — — [78]
Stepan Kretov 10 10 — Bomber pilot [79]
Aleksandr Babaev 10 9 1 — [80]
Mikhail Devyatayev 9 9 — — [81]
Nikolay Abramashvili 8-16 8-16 several — [82]
Alexey Maresyev 8 8 — Other accounts report ten shootdowns [83]
Murad Ozdoev 8 8 — Deported to Central Asia due to his ethnicity; rehabilitated and Hero of the Russian Federation. [84]
Aleksandr Avdeyev 7 7 — Killed in action 12 August 1942 [85]
Grigory Okhay 7 7 — Went on to become an ace again in the Korean war [86]
Yevgeniy Kungurtsev 7 1 6 — [87]
Grigory Ges 5 5 — Went on to become an ace again in the Korean war [86]

References

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