Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Air Force===
{{main|Russian aviators}}
*[[Yekaterina Budanova]], World War II pilot, one of the world's two female [[fighter ace]]s
*[[Valery Chkalov]], leader of the first ultralong flight from Moscow to the [[Russian Far East]], leader of the first [[transcontinental flight]] by [[airplane]] over the [[North Pole]], [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Mikhail Devyatayev]], fighter pilot known for his incredible escape aboard a stolen bomber from a [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]] on the Baltic island of [[Usedom]], [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Nikolai Gastello]], first Soviet pilot to direct his burning aircraft on a ground target, HSU
*[[Alexander Golovanov]], [[chief marshal]] of Aviation at the end of World War II, commander of [[Long Range Aviation]]
*[[Sergey Gritsevets]], fighter ace during the [[Spanish Civil War]] and the [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol]], the first to become twice the [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Valentina Grizodubova]], one of the first Soviet female pilots and [[Heroes of the Soviet Union]], set a record for woman's ultralong flights
*[[M. M. Gromov|Mikhail Gromov]], set a record during the transcontinental flight over the [[North Pole]], founded the [[Gromov Flight Research Institute]], HSU[[File:Gromov Mihail Mihajlovich 1934.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Mikhail Gromov (aviator)|Gromov]]]]
*[[Vladimir Ilyushin]], [[test pilot]] for [[OKB Sukhoi]], HSU
*[[Nikolai Kamanin]], polar aviator, among the first to receive the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], trained the first ever [[cosmonaut]]s, including [[Yuri Gagarin]], [[Gherman Titov]] and [[Alexei Leonov]]
*[[Alexander Kazakov]], most successful Russian [[flying ace]] of World War I, the first to perform an [[aerial ramming]] and survive
*[[Sergei Khudyakov]], [[Marshal of Aviation]] during World War II, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Air Force
*[[Vladimir Kokkinaki]], famous Soviet [[test pilot]], set 22 world records, a president of the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]], double HSU
*[[Zinaïda Kokorina]], pilot and flight instructor, in 1925 became the world's first military pilot
*[[Ivan Kozhedub]], top fighter ace in the aviation of the [[Allies of World War II]], credited with 62 individual victories, thrice the [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Pavel Kutakhov]], World War II fighter ace, [[chief marshal]] of Aviation under [[Leonid Brezhnev]], double HSU
*[[Sigizmund Levanevsky]], polar aviator, among the first to receive the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], died in a transpolar flight attempt
*[[Anatoly Liapidevsky]], polar aviator, the first person to receive the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], [[general major]] of Aviation
*[[Lydia Litvyak]], World War II pilot, one of the world's two female [[fighter ace]]s, HSU
*[[Alexey Maresyev]], World War II fighter ace, HSU, the prototype for ''[[The Story of a Real Man]]''
*[[Ivan Nagurski]], first [[polar aviator]], World War I flying ace
*[[Pyotr Nesterov]], inventor and pioneer of [[aerobatics]], the first pilot to perform the [[aerobatic loop]], died in the world's first [[aerial ramming]] during World War I
*[[Alexander Novikov]], [[chief marshal]] of Aviation during World War II, double HSU
*[[Yevgeny Pepelyaev]], top Soviet fighter ace in the [[Korean War]], HSU
*[[Viktor Pokrovsky]], World War I flying ace, the first Russian pilot to capture an enemy plane and pilot
*[[Alexander Pokryshkin]], World War II fighter ace, credited with 59 individual victories, triple [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], Marshal of Aviation
*[[Georgy Prokofiev]], balloonist who coordinated military stratospheric balloon program in the 1930s, set world record in altitude on ''[[USSR-1]]''
*[[Viktor Pugachyov]], test pilot and pioneer of [[supermaneuverability]], the first to show [[Pugachev's Cobra]] maneuver of [[Su-27]]
*[[Endel Puusepp]], long-range bomber pilot, famous for flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington, D.C. and back to negotiate the opening of the [[Western Front (World War II)|Western Front]], HSU
*[[Marina Raskova]], navigator, founder of the three female air regiments during World War II, HSU
*[[Yevgeniya Rudneva]], World War II bomber pilot, one of the ''[[Night Witches]]'', HSU
*[[Yevgeniya Shakhovskaya]], first woman military pilot
*[[Mark Shevelev]], World War II Soviet polar aviation commander, HSU
*[[Lev Shestakov]], top Soviet fighter ace during the [[Spanish Civil War]], HSU[[File:Nesterovpn.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Pyotr Nesterov]]]]
*[[Yakov Smushkevich]], commanded the Soviet aviation in the [[Spanish Civil War]] and the [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol]], double HSU
*[[Nelson Stepanyan]], World War II [[dive bomber]] pilot, destroyed scores of enemy ships, tanks, cars, planes and guns, double HSU
*[[Nikolay Sutyagin]], top [[Korean War]] Soviet fighter ace, HSU
*[[Victor Talalikhin]], World War II fighter ace, among the first to perform [[aerial ramming]] at night, HSU
*[[Andrey Vitruk]], World War II fighter ace, [[major general]] of Aviation, [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] and the [[Hero of Yugoslavia]]
*[[Mikhail Vodopianov]], polar aviator, among the first to receive the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], commanded the first World War II Soviet air raid on Berlin in 1941
*[[Yekaterina Zelenko]], World War II pilot, the only woman ever to have performed and died in [[aerial ramming]], HSU