P-39

Dear Readers: We present photographs from the album of Timofey Ivanovich Karlov, kindly submitted by his granddaughter Svetlana Krasnik. Timofey Ivanovich was a…

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– Please, tell us about yourself: youth, school, how did you get your aviation training. I developed a very early interest in aviation…

Kulakov: I was born on the 4th of March, 1923, in Rabotki, about 60 km downstream from Gorkiy. A ship was frozen there…

Discovery This amazing Bell P39 was located at the bottom of Lake Mart-Yavr within the Russian Arctic Circle in the summer of 2004.…

P-39 Airacobra from Pioneer Air Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska. This plane crashed near Ladd Field airbase in February 1994 Photos by Ilya Grinberg ©

P-39Q Airacobra from Niagara Aerospace museum, now returned from loan to Smithsonian Air And Space Museum. Photos by Iliya Grinberg ©

N. G. Golodnikov in front of his Cobra. Severomorsk airfield. 1943. A. S. When did you begin with the Cobra? On what types…

Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov – Major-General (Ret). He was with the 2-nd Guards Fighter Regiment (GIAP) of the Northern Fleet Aviation (VVS SF) from…

Photos for publishing are kindly given by Niagara Aerospace Museum.