The photo album is dedicated to aircraft designer Semyon Alekseevich Lavochkin - corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, major general of the aviation engineering service, four times winner of the Stalin Prize, twice Hero of Socialist Labor. In the 1930s, with the direct participation of S. A. Lavochkin, work began on the creation of one of the first Soviet fighter aircraft. His LaGG-3, La-5, La-7 aircraft made a significant contribution to the defeat of the Nazi invaders. After World War II, S. A. Lavochkin worked on the creation of jet aircraft. In his design bureau, serial jet fighters were developed. In the 1950s, S. A. Lavochkin was working on a new topic: the Storm intercontinental supersonic cruise missile, the Dal anti-aircraft missile system, were created, which were designed to strengthen the country's air defense system.