Future Hero of the Soviet Union (1943) Vladimir Pokrovsky (1918-1998) is the pilot of the I-16 type 24 fighter aircraft of the Red Army Air Force. Beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Russian Nation, the 78th Fighter Air Regiment of the Northern Fleet Air Force under command of famous pilot Boris Safonov.
The Eastern Front of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War in the Soviet Russia.
Location: USSR
Time when the photo was taken: 1941