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Born July 12, 1922, Tiflis - Soviet test pilot.
Together with his friend Timur Frunze, he entered the Kachin military aviation school of pilots in the Crimea in August 1940. He graduated from the school on September 3, 1941 in the town of Krasny Kut, Saratov region, where the school was evacuated. In the same year, he was retrained for the Yak-1 fighter and in December was sent to a fighter aviation regiment defending Moscow. Member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks since 1941.
On January 16, 1942 Mikoyan was shot down by mistake by Soviet pilot M.A.Rodionov. Stepan Anastasovich managed to land a burning car, after which he ended up in a medical battalion with a 3rd degree burn of the hands, face and left leg and knee joint of the right leg.
Six months later, he was assigned to Stalingrad, and then to the North-Western Front.
By October 1942 he flew 14 sorties. Held 3 air battles, shot down 6 enemy aircraft as part of a group. In November 1942, Captain Mikoyan was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for 14 combat missions in December 1941-January 1942, 3 air battles and 6 downed enemy aircraft in the group.
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943.
In August 1944, the flight commander of the 12th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Guard Captain Mikoyan, was awarded the Order of the Red Star for completing 7 sorties to escort especially important flights and letter trains Novikov, Zhukov, Voronov, Meretsky, Popov.
The commander of the link of the fighter regiment, Captain Stepan Anastasovich Mikoyan, ended the war with two military orders.
In June 1945, Stepan married Eleanor Lozovskaya, daughter of test pilot Pyotr Ivanovich Lozovsky, who died in 1932.
From 1945 to 1951 he was a student of the engineering faculty of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky. After graduation, he works at the Air Force Research Institute.
For 23 years he tested fighter planes of Mikoyan, Sukhoi and Yakovlev design bureaus, received the title of "Honored Test Pilot of the USSR", on April 3, 1975 for conducting state tests of the MiG-25 became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Became the first deputy chief of the Air Force Research Institute. He mastered 102 types of aircraft and flew about 3.5 thousand hours. Since April 1978 Stepan Anastasovich has been the deputy chief designer of the Moscow NPO Molniya for flight tests. In space flight "Burana" was responsible for control of the spacecraft in the descent and landing sectors.
