Yuriy Rybin Author

Yuriy Rybin is one of Russia’s leading researchers in the field of air combat in the Soviet North during World War 2. The author of many articles, several of his features are now the standard works of reference on air combat on the Soviet-German Northern front. Yuriy Rybin was also the first researcher to impartially describe the combat history of legendary Soviet ace of the Northern Fleet, Boris Safonov, who was the first fighter pilot to be twice awarded the Star of the Hero of Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. Andrey Yurgenson is one of Russia’s premier aviation artists. He has illustrated numerous articles on the history of Russian aviation in Russian and foreign aviation magazines since the early 1990s. Yurgenson’s artwork had also been published in more than 20 books. He produced the profiles for Combat Aircraft 71 – Il-2 Shturmovik Units of WW2 and ACE 95 – Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces.