Classmate of Vasily Stalin, Timur Frunze and Amet-Khan Sultan at the legendary Kachin Aviation School, who personally knew Ivan Kozhedub and Alexei Maresyev, Hero of the Soviet Union Emir-Usein Chalbash during the Great Patriotic War made 360 sorties and shot down 17 enemy aircraft, and during the Victory Parade conducted an air group over Red Square. This book is worthy of entering the "golden fund" of memoirs about the Second World War. This is a detailed and honest story of the Soviet ace about the combat work of fighter pilots, about air battles and front-line friends, losses and victories.