"Under a skilful rider it rushed along like an arrow, but when you lost control you could end up beneath its hoofs"
Alexander Pokryshkin, top ace of VVS during the Great Patrioctic War

Thanks to the following persons that have contributed to this work:

Audrius Nairanauskas for many informations, traslations and images from Russian sources, and for having kindly sent  to me the book "Istrebitel MiG-3" of Medvedv, Hazanov, Maslov as a kind gift; thank you Audrius.
Jouni Ronkko for having sent to me his collection of digital images and links;
Robert Peczkowski, editor of Barbarossa Victims, for having sent to me informations and images from the book;
Giovanni Carlassare for having sent to me some photostats;
Kovalsky Alexey of the firm "Avion" for his excellent photos of the aircraft restored in Novosibirsk;
Matthias Erben for some informations, traslations and images of his model;
Ilya Grimberg for some informations and images;
Gianpiero Manca for some images, and for the photos of his model;
Stephane Wrobel  for some images, magazines and informations;
Andi Szekeres for some images of the Rumanian captured aircraft;
Lee Jong Tae for some images;
Hannu Valtonen, Director of the  Tikkakoski FinnAF Museum, for some informations;
Dmitriy Sribny   of www.airforce.ru   for the photos of the MiG-3 replica in Monino;
Thomas Siepert for photos of the wreckages of  Tikkanoski Museum;
Rostislav Bardokin  for the photos of the wreckages from the Black Sea;
Aleksej Ilic of Gremlinmodels for some scans;
Jan Koennig of  www.Jetmodell.de for many scans from his original photos;
Kai Mecklin, Director of the Central Finland Aviation Museum, for a lot of images;
Liuzimin  for some scans;
Alexey Matvienko for his research on the lenght of different versions of MiG-3 and for some other help;
Alexander Ruchkovsky for his help with traslations and other informations;
John Myers for his help with bw photos interpretation;
István Vadász for some scans and suggestions;
Jan van den Heuvel for a scan from original photo;
Carl-Fredrik Geust for some scans;
Przemek Skulski for the photos of his model and for a copy of the new monograph "Migi Stalina", ed. Ajaks, aut.Cieslak and Jackiewicz;
Valera Mel'nikov for a movie from Russian TV and for comments and suggestions on the walkaround;
Basil for the photos of his model;
Mark Sheppard for informations on the MiG-3 restored by Rusavia;
Peter Schömer for his images of the MiG-3 restored by Rusavia;
Yuri Pasholok for his detailed images of rebuilt MiG-3 at MAKS 2005;
Marcin Widomski for the scans of his wartime images and photos of his model;
Michael Neradkov (Michael XIII) for the images and report about his model;
Pascal Divay, Honza Jezl, Chris Hewitt, Uwe Borchert, Libor Jekl, Plator Kalakulla,Gregory T. Conterio, Jan Karnik for the images and report about their models
 

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