Hero of the Soviet Union First Lieutenant Ivan Kozhedub, Squadron Commander, 240th Fighter Regiment, the 5th Air Army of the Leningrad Front, part of the Red Army's Air Force, receives his new aircraft, a Lavochkin La-5FN fighter (serial number 14). Vasily Konev, a collective farmer and beekeeper from the Stalingrad Region, financed its construction.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War, Human Interest
- Location: Yassy, Romania
- Event date: 02.05.1944
- Date published: 13.04.2023
- Author: Ivan Shagin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 78-8572, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 4667x3543px, 5Mb