Photo by Senior Lieutenant of the Red Army Air Force G. Mushnikov– Hero of the Soviet Union

The original photo is in good collector's condition. The size is 95*123 mm. The TASS newsreel. There are traces of pasting into the album on the back. Guarantee of authenticity.

Georgy Justinovich Mushnikov (December 8, 1923 — February 3, 1984) was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, flight commander of the 140th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the 8th Guards Assault Aviation Division of the 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps of the 2nd Air Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Guard senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born on December 8, 1923 in the village of Aybashevo in the Birsky canton of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in a peasant family. Russian. He graduated from the Ufa Aero Club in 1941 without interrupting his studies at secondary school. After graduating from the aero club, he voluntarily entered the aviation school of pilots in Perm. After graduating from college, he was sent to the front in the active army. He took part in battles with the Nazi invaders as part of the Voronezh, Steppe, 1st Ukrainian, and 2nd Ukrainian fronts as an attack aircraft pilot, flight commander, deputy squadron commander, and squadron commander. During the Great Patriotic War, the Il-2 attack aircraft flew 185 combat missions. He participated in the battles for the liberation of the cities of Belgorod, Kursk, Kharkov, Kirovograd, Lviv, Krakow, Sandomir, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Prague, Berlin and others. Member of the CPSU since 1944. For 111 combat sorties, as a result of which many enemy personnel and equipment were personally destroyed, on April 10, 1945, Georgy Mushnikov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he continued to serve in the USSR Air Force until April 1958. During his service in the Soviet Army Air Force, he flew 16 types of aircraft, including fighter jets, and trained young pilots. In 1958, due to the reduction of the army, he was discharged from the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After being discharged from the reserve, he worked for 20 years at the Ufa Machine-building Plant as a supervisor, technologist, and engineer, of which he was secretary of the party bureau of the OTK for 13 years. He died on February 3, 1984, and was buried in Ufa at the Southern Cemetery.