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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Yuri Gagarin, Alexander Pokryshkin, Nikolai Kamanin, Alexander P. de Seversky, List of Russian aviators, Yekaterina Budanova, Nikolai Gastello, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Pavel Argeyev, Jan Nagorski, Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov, Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov, Alexander Kazakov, Valery Chkalov, Pyotr Nesterov, Kirill A. Evstigneyev, Juri Gilsher, Valentin Varlamov, Vladimir Ilyushin, Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev, Sergey Rakhmanin, Alexey Maresyev, Sigizmund Levanevsky, Mikhail Vodopianov, Nikolay Kokorin, Viktor Pugachyov, Grigoriy Rechkalov, Timur Apakidze, Farrukh Gayibov, Michael Gregor, Vsevolod Abramovich, Mavriky Slepnyov, Aleksei Gubarev, Svetlana Kapanina, Nikolay Sutyagin, Yuri Garnaev, Vasily Molokov, Viktor Talalikhin, Abraham Whalomie Raygorodsky, Alexander Fyodorovich Avdeyev, Ivan Sytov, Mikhail Mamistov, Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya, Mikhail Gromov, Ivan Doronin, Petr Mikhailovich Stefanovskiy, Marat Alykov, Alexandr Panfierov, Georgij Kaminski. Excerpt: Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin (Russian: born on 6 March 1913 - died on 13 November 1985) was a Marshal of the Soviet Air Force. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three separate occasions (24 May 1943, 24 August 1943, and 19 August 1944). Pokryshkin was, in addition to his three Hero of the Soviet Union golden stars, awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov (2nd class), two Orders of the Red Star, a number of other medals, and foreign orders, such as the USAAF (US Army) Distinguished Service Medal which he is seen wearing below his other medals in some photographs, such as the one in this article, in which it is the lower-right-hand medal. Pokryshkin was the great tactician of the Soviet Air Force during the Second World War, a Russian Werner Molders. He almost singleh...
