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| Date: | Wednesday 17 September 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Polikarpov I-16 |
| Owner/operator: | 191 IAP Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | - |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Krasnoye Selo, SW of Leningrad -
Russia
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On 17 September 1941 during a combat mission, I-16 of 191 IAP was shot by German fighters near Krasnoye Selo, SW of Leningrad.
Ml/Lt Egor Pavlovich Novikov was killed. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 January 1942.
Sources:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-chelovek_nagrazhdenie10619650/ https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memorial-chelovek_donesenie9449912/ https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero102332800/ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Krasnoye_Selo https://www.bvvaul.ru/profiles/1626.php http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=14046 Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 03-Mar-2025 17:08 |
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| 03-Mar-2025 18:43 |
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Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Mar-2025 18:48 |
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| 03-Mar-2025 18:51 |
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| 03-Mar-2025 18:52 |
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| 03-Mar-2025 18:56 |
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