Photo of twice Hero of the Soviet Union A.E. Borovykh, TASS photo chronicle

The original picture, taken, judging by the remains of the tag, by a TASS photojournalist. Size 120*170 mm. The photo shows Andrey Egorovich Borovykh is a twice Hero of the Soviet Union, a fighter pilot who shot down 32 enemy aircraft and 15 in a group in aerial battles. Guarantee of authenticity. A previously unknown picture of the pilot.

Andrey Egorovich Borovykh (October 30, 1921, Kursk — November 7, 1989, Moscow) was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel-General of Aviation, Commander of the Air Defense Forces of the USSR (1969-1977). He was born on October 30, 1921 in the city of Kursk in a working-class family. Russian. He graduated from high school in 1936. Member of the CPSU (b)/CPSU since 1943. In the ranks of the Red Army since 1940. He graduated from the Chuguev Military Aviation School in 1940. Since December 1941 on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
During the two years of the war (1942 and 1943), he made 341 sorties on the Kalinin and Central Fronts, showing courage and bravery in aerial battles, personally shot down 12 enemy aircraft and 14 aircraft in the group. For these feats, the flight commander of the 157th Fighter Aviation Regiment (273rd Fighter Aviation Division, 6th Fighter Aviation Corps, 16th Air Army, Central Front), Junior Lieutenant Andrei Borovykh, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on August 24, 1943, with the award of the Order of Lenin and Gold Star medals (No. 1077). For exemplary performance of command tasks, 132 more successful sorties, in which 19 enemy aircraft were shot down, the heroism shown by the squadron commander of the 157th Fighter Aviation Regiment (234th Fighter Aviation Division, 6th Fighter Aviation Corps, 16th Air Army, 1st Belorussian Front) Captain Andrey Borovykh was awarded the second Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 62) by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 23, 1945.
In total, during the war years, he made more than 470 sorties, conducted more than 130 air battles, shot down 32 enemy aircraft personally and in a group of 14. According to the research of M. Y. Bykov, the distribution of personal and group victories of an outstanding ace according to the reporting and operational documents of his regiment is somewhat different — 27 personal and 17 group. At the end of the Great Patriotic War, he commanded an aviation regiment, division, and corps. In 1951 he graduated from the Air Force Academy, and in 1957 from the Higher Military Academy.
From 1959 to 1969, he commanded aviation associations. In 1968, he was awarded the military rank of Colonel-General of Aviation. In 1969-1977 — Commander of the Air Defense Forces of the USSR. From 1977 to 1988, he was a military consultant at the Institute of Military History of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd convocation. Honored Military Pilot of the USSR (1966). Author of scientific articles "New technology, weapons and man" (1972), "Reliable shield of the Motherland" (1985) and others. He died on November 7, 1989 in Moscow. The circumstances of the death are not entirely clear. A journalistic version was published that he was killed by hooligans. In an interview, a friend of the Borovs, General N. I. Moskvitelev, claims that Andrei Egorovich went to the store on a holiday and died on the street from a stroke; the body was not immediately identified. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.