This profile represents an example of an unknown unit, that made a forced landing.
The photo has a very low contrast, and at first glance it looks an overall green aircraft without stars. This would be odd. Besides, the aircraft is a late production MiG-3, so the photo is probably taken in autumn 1941, when MiGs were always camouflaged.
Observing carefully the photo, one can see (or think to see):

• it is a long-nosed example, with slats;
• it is armed with underwing gun pods;
• low contrast green/dark green camouflage, with reasonable concordance with usual scheme;
• a medium size red star on the fuselage, and a small size star on the tail, behind the yellow 5; the hypothetic tail star is very uncertain, but the strong displacement of the 5 digit looks to confirm its presence.
• it looks without radio devices; ther mast is not visible, but it could have been removed with the nose panels; the radio boxes behind the seat look absent too;
• there is the small pipe for inert gas anti-fire fuel tanks system over the left side exhaust stacks;
• the tail wheel looks extracted in spite of being the main undercarriage retracted; probably it was locked fixed in low position;
• the propeller blades look unusually painted, probably black or green.

 
 

These details with enhanced contrast are to evidence where I think to see traces of the stars contours (evidences with white points on the latest image).

 

The last detail evidences what is visible of the gun pod behind the bended gun barrel.

 

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