Gagarin Air Force Academy

History

Leadership (Superintendent – commander and senior officer)

• 1940 –
• 1940-1941 –
• 1942 – Fyodor Astakhov
• 1941–1942 –
• 1942–1944 –
• 1944–1946 –
• 1946–1950 – Fedor Falaleyev
• 1950–1956 –
• 1956–1968 – Stepan Krasovsky
• 1968–1973 – Sergei Rudenko
• 1973–1988 – Nikolai Skomorokhov

  Notable faculty

• Sergei Gulyev – Doctor of Military Sciences, professor.
• Alexander Drozhzhin – Doctor of Military Sciences, professor.
• – professor, Major-General retired.
• Grigory Lavrik – Honored Scientist of Russia, Doctor of Military Sciences, professor.
• Georgy Molokanov – Honored Scientist of Russia, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor.
• Valentin Rog – Doctor of Military Sciences, professor.
• Ivan Timokhovich – Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, Major-General of aviation.

  Notable alumni

• Vladimir Aleksenko – Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant-General.
• Vasily Andrianov – Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Major-General.
• Leonid Beda – Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR, Lieutenant-General of aviation.
• Georgy Beregovoy – Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Mikhail Bondarenko – Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
• Viktor Bondarev – Commander in Chief, Russian Federation Air Force, Colonel-General. Hero of the Russian Federation.
• Andrei Borovykh – Hero of the Soviet Union awarded twice, Colonel-General of aviation, Commander of the Aviation of the Air Defense Forces of the USSR.
• Rafael del Pino – Deputy Chief of the Cuban Air and Air Defense Force
• Aleksei Gubarev – Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Major-General.
• Sigmund Jähn – East German cosmonaut
• Ivan Kozhedub – World War II ace-pilot, shoot down highest number of enemy aircraft among pilots of Soviet forces. Thrice Hero of the Soviet Union; Marshal of Aviation.
• Anatoly Nedbaylo – Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Deputy Superintendent of the Kiev Higher Air Force Engineering Academy, Major-General of aviation.
• Ivan Vorobyov – Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexander Yefimov – Commander in Chief Air Force and Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR ; Marshal of Aviation, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR, Doctor of Military Sciences, professor.
• Alexander Zelin – Commander in Chief, Russian Federation Air Force, Colonel-General.