The book is dedicated to the participation of aviation in the Battle of Stalingrad. In this work, the actions of mainly Soviet aviation are considered, since the basis of the book is data from Russian archives. But the enemy's aviation - the Germans and their allies - is not ignored. The value of the material lies in the fact that aviation actions are not filed in isolation from "ground" events, but in their context. The Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point not only in the Great Patriotic War, but throughout the Second World War. And - paradoxically - this greatest battle on the Volga is still little studied, not freed from propaganda cliches and myths. The author, having studied thousands of documents, tried, as much as possible, to look at this historical event in a new way. The book is illustrated with photographs from private and public archives, maps, diagrams, as well as colored views of aircraft - participants in the battle - of both warring parties.