Soviet ace fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Baranov. Battle of Stalingrad, 1942.
Mikhail Baranov – one of the best fighter pilots of World War II, the most effective at the time of his death, and many of his victories have been won on the initial, most difficult period of the war. If not for his accidental death, he would be in the same glorified pilot as Pokryshkin or Kozhedub.