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Good afternoon,

I have reworked my Soviet top aces data according to Bykov's results and the soviet-aces-1936-53.ru website. Enjoy!

aircraft/top ace/score in type (shared kills counted as decimals)

• LaGG-3: Pavel Babaylov 26,25
• La-5: Kirill Yevstigneyev 52,83
• La-7: Nikolai Rudenko & Viktor Aleksandryuk 19
• MiG-1: none
• MiG-3: Sergei Makarov 13,99
• MiG-15: none
• MiG-15bis: Nikolai Sutyagin 22
• MiG-17: none; overall: Nguyen Van Bay (Vietnamese) 7
• MiG-21: none; overall: Nguyen Van Coc (Vietnamese) 9
• Polikarpov I-15: Ivan Yeremenko 7+5sh; overall: Leopoldo Morquillas Rubio (Spanish) 21
• Polikarpov I-16: Sergei Gritsevets 9+24sh or Ivan Lakeev 16+20sh? or Ivan Pidtykan 16,14
• Polikarpov I-15bis: Georgii Agafonov 5 or 6 and/or Petr Bityutskii 5 and/or Petr Petrov ~5
• Polikarpov I-153: Konstantin Solovev 10
• Yak-1: Sergei Luganskii 31,33
• Yak-7: Arsenii Vorozheikin 30,5
• Yak-9: Ivan Stepanenko 21,25
• Yak-3: Aleksandr Koldunov 28
• Il-2: Ilya Mospanov 21
• Il-4: Stepan Kretov 10 or 12
• Pe-2: Nikolai Gulyayev 14

Lend and Lease types

• P-39: Grigorii Rechkalov 54,17
• P-63: none
• P-40: Petr Pokryshev 15,1; overall: Clive Caldwell (Australian) 20,5
• P-47: none; overall: Francis Gabreski 28
• A-20: Nikolai Krapiva 5; overall: Gordon Raphael (Canadian) 6
• Hurricane: Vladimir Zalevskii 17,25; overall: Marmaduke Pattle (South African) 35,33
• Spitfire: Sergei Martinov 6; overall: James Johnson (British) 36,92

Any additions/corrections/opinions are most welcome !

Michael