On the life and combat path of twice Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Lieutenant General Aviation Vasily Georgievich Ryazanov (1901-1951). He commanded the first formation of IL-2 attack aircraft, the 1st Guards Assault Air Corps. About military operations, about pilots who fought under the command of Ryazanov. Based on the memoirs of one of them, S.D. Lugansky, the script of the famous film "Only "old men" go into battle."