Welcome to the VVS research page. It is devoted to modellistic/historical research and artwork about Soviet military planes.

 

Colors of Soviet warplanes	General table of colors
	Painting standards evolution (still in progress)
Biplane fighters	I-4
	I-5
	I-15, I-15bis, I-153
Monoplane fighters	MiG-3 and other MiG fighters
	I-1 (IL-400)
	I-16
	I-17
	Yak-3
	Yak-1, Yak-7, Yak-9
	LaGG-3
	La-5
Biplane bombers, trainers, reconaissance planes	U-2/Po-2
	R-5, R-Z
	R-1
Monoplane bombers, trainers, reconaissance single-engined planes	Il-2
	Il-10
	Su-2
	R-10
	UT-1 and UT-2
bombers, transport and reconaissance multi-engined planes	SB, USB and Ar-2
	Tu-2 (still in progress)
	Pe-2 and Pe-3
	DB-3 and Il-4 (still in progress)
	Yer-2
	Li-2 (still in progress)
	Yak-2, Yak-4 (still in progress)
	Yak-6, Yak-8
	TB-1 and TB-3
	Pe-8
	ShCh-2
Lend-lease planes	Bell P-39
	Curtiss P-40
	Douglas A-20 Boston/Havoc
	N.A. B-25 Mitchell
	Hawker Hurricane
	Supermarine Spitfire
colorized historical photos	Page with some historical bw photos colorized by Massimo Tessitori
Pilots	Page of interviews to wartime veterans by Oleg Korytov and Konstantin Chirkin

This work collects also a lot of photos and drawings from many sources, not always identified and mentioned.
If someone has some rights on the images here reproduced, please email to me and I shall provide to remove or to credit them.
While the historical photos are of public domain (except where otherwise stated), my color profiles and coloured photos are copyrighted.
If someone is interested in any use of them, please email me; higher resolution version is available for printing purposes.
If someone has questions, critiques or corrections, or some further images to show, please email to me.

Massimo Tessitori           massimo.tessitori.nospam@libero.it (remove .nospam)