Left above

This late MiG-3 was photographed on the Kalininsky front, winter 1941/42. The unit is unknown and the plane hasn't visible numbers; its only noticeable charactoeristic is the strong evidence of brush strokes on its winter finish made with MK-8 white distemper over the base black-green camouflage.

The characteristics of the aircraft are:

• long nosed with slats;
• equipped with rocket rails apparently painted with light blue as the undersurface;
• white uppersurfaces, with evident traces of hand brush painting;
• light blue undersurfaces;
• probably clean white spinner;
• fixed tail wheel with canvas cover, without doors;
• stars roughly contoured with white paint;
• equipped with radio mast and wires, but no boxes visible through the rear glazing.

Image from "Unknown battles on the Moscow skies" of Hazanov

Left below: a blurried screenshot of the same plane allows to see something of the wing.