This profile represents an aircraft photographed during the  Spring 1945 at the Volsk Military Aviation School.
It is obtained merging the characteristics of the two aircrafts visible on the photo, that were probably identical, and some written notes.
Its characteristics are:

• long nosed, with slats;
• repainted probably with AMT green (including spinner and propeller blades) and AMT light blue; the aircraft of the school had a "new" look; the rear fuselage demarcation line is unusual.
• no numbers painted;
• large stars with thick white outlines, on six positions;
• starter tooth on the spinner;
• undercarriages repainted with a darker color than usual (blue-grey wooden aerolak?) with an even darker leg and wheel disk (green?).

On the centre of the picture, we see Ivan Ivanovich Zaicev (the owner of picture) superior trainer Leytenant , 2 VVAShAM (Volskaya Voenaya Aviacionaya Shkola Aviamehanikov; Volsk Military Aviation School of aviamechanics).
The aircraft were intended for static purposes, to train the ground crew.

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