Stepan Mikoyan

Stepan Anastasovich Mikoyan is Soviet test pilot. Hero of the Soviet Union (1975). Lieutenant General of Aviation. Honored Test Pilot of the USSR. Candidate of Technical Sciences. Mikoyan entered the Kachin Military Aviation Pilot School in Crimea in August 1940. He graduated on September 3, 1941 in the city of Krasnyy Kut, Saratov Region, where the school was evacuated. In the same year, he retrained for the Yak-1 fighter, and in December was sent to the fighter aviation regiment defending Moscow. January 16, 1942 Mikoyan was shot down by mistake by the Soviet pilot M. Rodionov. Stepan Anastasovich managed to land a burning plane. Six months later, he was appointed to Stalingrad, and then to the North-Western Front. By October 1942, Mikoyan completed 14 sorties. Held 3 air battles, as part of a group shot down 6 enemy planes. From 1945 to 1951 - student of the Faculty of Engineering of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovskiy. After graduation, he worked at the Air Force Research and Testing Institute. For 23 years, he tested combat aircraft of the fighter OKB Mikoyan, Sukhoy and Yakovlev, received the title of Honored Test Pilot of the USSR. On April 3, 1975, for conducting state tests of the MiG-25 became a Hero of the Soviet Union.