The illustrated history edition is dedicated to the creation and combat use of one of the most famous aircraft - the MiG-21 fighter. It covers the period fro...

At the front, the Yak-3 earned the honorary nickname “VICTORY”. This aviation masterpiece became the “crown of creation” of the famous Design Bureau of A. S....

“The designer must be iron,” wrote A.S. Yakovlev in the newspaper Pravda in the summer of 1944. Was it not for this quality that Stalin elevated him, who dis...

This book is the most complete creative biography of Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin, restoring the history of all projects of his famous design bureau, both m...

His contribution to the history of world aviation is no less than the merits of Tupolev, Ilyushin, Lavochkin and Yakovlev - however, the name of Vladimir Mik...

The entire history of domestic aviation is inextricably linked with the name of Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev. Under his leadership in the early 1930s. The heav...

The appearance of the supersonic fighter-interceptor MiG-31 became for the Soviet Union a real antidote against threats from the air of an external enemy. Al...

He is called “the last great aircraft designer of the 20th century.” He created 22 types of aircraft, including the largest and most lifting aircraft in the ...

The next issue of the Aviakollektsiya magazine talks about the Ep-2 long-range bomber, which was destined to become “the plane of unfulfilled hopes.” You wil...

When, at the end of the Great Patriotic War, “Stalin’s falcons” first encountered Luftwaffe jets in battle, the Me-262 fighter-bomber made such an impression...

Having entered the Great Patriotic War on fighters that were inferior in every way to German aircraft, the “Stalinist Falcons” ended the Second World War on ...

The history of the creation of La-5 is dramatic and paradoxical. This is the story of the miraculous transformation of a frankly unsuccessful machine, nickna...