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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See also: Category:Soviet World War II flying aces

Name Total Individual
victories		 Group
victories		 Notes References
Grigory Rechkalov 65 61 4 Previous estimate was 56 solo and 5 shared.[1] [2]
Ivan Kozhedub 64 64 — Estimates vary slightly, but all credit him with at least 60 solo. [3][4]
Nikolai Gulayev 60 55 5 — [5]
Kirill Yevstigneyev 56 53 3 — [6]
Dmitry Glinka 50 50 — — [7]
Alexander Pokryshkin 49 45 4 Estimates widely vary; recent estimates tend to be less than official Soviet accounts. [8]
Amet-khan Sultan 49 30 19 — [9][10]
Aleksandr Koldunov 47 46 1 — [11]
Nikolai Skomorokhov 47 44 3 Other sources indicate two shared kills[12] [13]
Arseny Vorozheykin 46 45 1 Also gained aerial victories in the battle for Khalkhin Gol [14]
Andrey Borovykh 46 29 17 — [15]
Vladimir Serov 45 39 6 Including one aerial ramming. Killed in action 26 June 1944 [16]
Nikolai Krasnov 44 44 ? Killed in an accident on 29 January 1945. [17]
Vladimir Lavrinenkov 43 36 7 Some sources indicate 11 shared kills.[18] [19]
Aleksey Ryazanov 43 31 12 Some sources indicate 16 instead of 12 shared kills.[20] [21]
Ivan Stepanenko 41 32 9 — [22]
Ivan Babak 40 35 5 — [23]
Vitaly Popkov 40 40 — — [24][25]
Aleksei Khlobystov 39 6 18 Three individual kills were aerial rammings.[26] [27]
Pavel Kamozin 38 34 4 — [28]
Ivan Fyodorov 37 37 0 Including one aerial ramming [29]
Aleksey Smirnov 36 35 1 — [30]
Aleksandr Karpov 36 27 9 — [31]
Sergey Lugansky 35 34 1 Other sources indicate 36 solo and two group. [32]
Aleksey Alelyukhin 34 28 6 — [33]
Vladimir Bobrov 34 23 11 — [34]
Aleksandr Klubov 34 31 3 Killed in accident 1 November 1944 [35]
Pavel Babailov 33 27 6 — [36]
Pavel Golovachev 31 30 1 — [37]
Aleksey Solomatin 29 13 16 Or six shared [38]
Nikolai Gusarov 27 16 11 — [39]
Ivan Sytov 28 25 3 — [40]
Pavel Kutakhov 28 12 16 — [41]
Dmitry Medvedev 29 14 15 — [42]
Igor Kaberov 28 10 18 — [43]
Boris Kovzan 28 28 — Four individual kills were aerial rammings. Not listed in Bykov's collection of aces. [44]
Sergei Safronov 28 24 4 — [45]
Pyotr Pokryshev 27 18 9 Other sources credit more unconfirmed kills.[46] [47]
Konstantin Krasavin 25 22 3 — [48]
Boris Safonov 25 20 5 Western sources indicate a higher tally.[49] [50][51]
Mikhail Baranov 24 24 — Killed in training accident 15 January 1943 [52]
Vasily Zaitsev 24 24 — Also credited with having 34 personal and 19 shared victories.[53] [54]
Yevgeny Savitsky 24 22 2 Or eighteen solo and one shared [55]
Lev Shestakov 24 16 8 — [56]
Leonid Bykovets 23 19 4 — [57]
Mikhail Kuznetsov 23 19 4 Possibly one shared. [58]
Ivan Kleshchyov 23 13 10 — [59]
Andrei Girich 21 17 4 — [60]
Chichiko Bendeliani 21 9 12 — [61]
Adil Guliyev 20 20 — — [62]
Nikolai Shutt 20 18 2 — [63]
Pyotr Bazanov 18 16 2 — [64]
Alim Baisultanov 18 5 13 — [65]
Georgy Bayevsky 19 19 — — [66]
Shamil Abdrashitov 18 18 — Killed in action 4 May 1944 [67]
Alexander Kabiskoy 17 17 — — [68]
Ivan Kuzmichyov 17 15 2 — [69]
Semyon Bychkov 15 10 5 Taken prisoner, served in Luftwaffe, and executed by USSR for treason on 4 November 1946. [70]
Luka Muravitsky 15 5 10 Killed in action 30 November 1941 [71]
Stepan Bakhayev 15 12 3 Went on to become an ace again in the Korean war [72]
Vasily Afonin 13 11 2 Possibly 14 individual and 3 group. [73]
Emir Chalbash 12 8 4 Some credit 11 solo and 6 shared. [74]
Yekaterina Budanova 11 5 6 Ace status disputed. [75]
Aleksandr Babaev 10 9 1 — [76]
Lydia Litvyak 8 5 3 Does not include one observation balloon. Counts vary significantly. [77]
Alexey Maresyev 7 7 — Other sources report up to 11 shootdowns [78]
Aleksandr Avdeyev 5 5 — Killed in action 12 August 1942 [79]

References
  1. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 274.
  2. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 276.
  3. Morgan 2013, p. 82.
  4. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 17.
  5. Bykov 2014, pp. 317–318.
  6. Morgan 2013, p. 88.
  7. Bykov 2014, pp. 254–255.
  8. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 27.
  9. Bykov 2014, pp. 40–41.
  10. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 45.
  11. Bykov 2014, p. 559.
  12. Bykov 2014, pp. 1104–1005.
  13. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 317.
  14. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 84.
  15. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 73.
  16. Bykov 2014, p. 1083.
  17. Bodrikhin 2017, p. 272.
  18. Mellinger 2014, p. 88.
  19. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 187.
  20. Mellinger 2005, p. 51.
  21. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 280.
  22. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 334.
  23. Bykov 2014, pp. 74–75.
  24. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 261.
  25. Bykov 2014, p. 961-962.
  26. Mellinger, George (2012-10-20). Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781782005865.
  27. Bykov 2014, p. 1255.
  28. Bykov 2014, p. 491.
  29. Bykov 2008, p. 1229.
  30. Bykov 2014, p. 1116.
  31. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 149.
  32. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 192.
  33. Bykov 2014, p. 36.
  34. Bykov 2014, pp. 133–134.
  35. Bykov 2014, pp. 533–534.
  36. Bykov 2014, p. 73-74.
  37. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 100.
  38. Bykov 2014, p. 1132-1133.
  39. Bykov 2014, p. 322.
  40. Bykov 2014, p. 1168-1169.
  41. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 181.
  42. Bykov 2014, p. 770.
  43. Bykov 2014, p. 473.
  44. Mellinger 2008, p. 29.
  45. Bykov 2014, p. 1051-1052.
  46. Mellinger 2006, p. 30.
  47. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 251.
  48. Bykov 2014, p. 617.
  49. Mellinger, George (2012-10-20). Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 9781782005865.
  50. Bykov 2014, pp. 1050–1051.
  51. Simonov & Bodrikhin 2017, p. 298.
  52. Bykov 2014, p. 90.
  53. Mellinger 2014, p. 75.
  54. Bykov 2014, p. 418.
  55. Bykov 2014, p. 1034.
  56. Bykov 2014, pp. 1336–1337.
  57. Bykov 2014, p. 180.
  58. Bykov 2014, p. 637.
  59. Bykov 2014, p. 529.
  60. Bykov 2014, p. 251.
  61. Bykov 2014, p. 120-121.
  62. Bykov 2014, p. 650.
  63. Bykov 2014, p. 1367.
  64. Bykov 2014, p. 78.
  65. Bykov 2014, p. 80.
  66. Mellinger 2014, p. 42.
  67. Bykov 2014, p. 17.
  68. Bykov 2014, p. 473-474.
  69. Bykov 2014, p. 644.
  70. Bykov 2014, p. 183-184.
  71. Bykov 2014, pp. 827–828.
  72. Bykov 2014, p. 102.
  73. Bykov 2008, p. 35.
  74. Bykov 2014, p. 1278.
  75. Seidl 1998, p. 324.
  76. Bykov 2014, p. 73.
  77. Bykov 2014, p. 698-699.
  78. Bykov 2014, p. 751.
  79. Bykov 2014, p. 22.

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