Heroes of Stalingrad: Alexander Romanovich Popov was born in 1922 in the village of Stukovo, in a peasant family. After studying for seven years in his native school, he entered a pedagogical school in Barnaul and graduated in 1940. As a student, he took flight courses at the Barnaul Osubiachim Club, and in 1940 he was called up for military service in the Red Army, where he graduated from the Military Aviation School 7 of Stalingrad. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he remained at the school as an instructor pilot. Since March 1942, in the rank of senior sergeant, he fought in the 629th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 102nd Fighter Division. On July 23, 1942, in the area of ​​the Kaltskaya station, he attacked an enemy bomber on an Ani-16 fighter plane. When he ran out of ammunition he hit the propeller and cut off the tail of the German plane, then landed the plane on the fuselage. In that battle he received a severe leg wound. After treatment he was released. For this achievement he was awarded the Order of Lenin. In May 1943, he returned to his homeland, to Meslianinsky district in the Novosibirsk region, and got a job in the geological research team of the Yegorievsky mine. Nikolay Starikov in Max.

Heroes of Stalingrad: Alexander Romanovich Popov was born in 1922 in the village of Stukovo, in a peasant family. After studying for seven years in his native school, he entered a pedagogical school in Barnaul and graduated in 1940. As a student, he took flight courses at the Barnaul Osubiachim Club, and in 1940 he was called up for military service in the Red Army, where he graduated from the Military Aviation School 7 of Stalingrad. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he remained at the school as an instructor pilot. Since March 1942, in the rank of senior sergeant, he fought in the 629th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 102nd Fighter Division. On July 23, 1942, in the area of ​​the Kaltskaya station, he attacked an enemy bomber on an Ani-16 fighter plane. When he ran out of ammunition he hit the propeller and cut off the tail of the German plane, then landed the plane on the fuselage. In that battle he received a severe leg wound. After treatment he was released. For this achievement he was awarded the Order of Lenin. In May 1943, he returned to his homeland, to Meslianinsky district in the Novosibirsk region, and got a job in the geological research team of the Yegorievsky mine. Nikolay Starikov in Max.