This book recreates an extensive panorama of events that took place during February-March 1943 on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts and is dedicated to two little-known operations - Krasnoborskaya and Smerdynskaya. It tells about the “air workers of the war” - pilots, navigators, air gunners-radio operators, who almost daily rose into the menacing front-line skies and often did not return from combat missions. The book uses Russian and foreign archival materials, the results of search expeditions that took place in the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad region, as well as unique, previously unpublished photographs. (St. Petersburg, 2008) Ilya Prokofiev’s book “Soviet aviation in the battles over Krasny Bor and Smerdynya. February-March 1943" was published in St. Petersburg in 2008. The book immediately aroused considerable interest among the reader, but due to the very limited circulation of the book - only 500 copies, not everyone was able to purchase it. Meeting the wishes of the readers, the author provided the book for publication on our website, for which we are all very grateful to him! We also thank Oleg Korytov for his assistance in publishing the book on the website! ( htm)