photo coloured by Massimo Tessitori

"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

Bibliography:

MiG-3 Fighter by A. Medved, D. Khazanov, M. Maslov, ed. Rusavia, 2003 (ISBN 5-900078-24-8). (Russian)

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-1/MiG-3 of Massimo Tessitori, ed. Mushrooms 2006

Mikoyan's Piston-Engined Fighters of Gordon and Dexter, ed. Midland

Unknown battles on the Moscow skies, vol.1. and 2,  of  D. Hazanov (Russian)

Red Stars of Carl-Fredrik Geust, Kalevi Keskinen and Kari Stenman. Good book of about 160 pages, with a lot of profiles and photos of nearly all Soviet types.

OKB MiG of Piotr Butovsky with Jay Miller, ed Midland 1991

M-Hobby, many issues, articles of M. Timin on the painting of Soviet planes in 1941, in Russian

M-Hobby, many issues, articles of Vaklamov and Orlov on the painting of Soviet planes

Real colors of WWII aircraft, of Goralczyk, Hogl, Kiroff, Millman, Orlov, ed. AK

Aviacia y Vremia, 2/2011, article on MiG-3

Warpaint n.129: Mikoyan-Gurevic MiG-3, of Yakubovic, monograph in English

Militaria i Fakti n.28: MIGI Stalina of Cieslak, Jackiewicz, monograph in Polish

Early MiG fighters in action, of Stapfer, Squadron Signal 204, monograph in English

Links:

http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_6048.html topic collecting an huge documentation on MiG-3, in Russian.

http://ava.org.ru/iap.html wide site with photo collections ordered according to the unit and other informations.

https://www.planesinprofile.com/mig-3 site with profiles of MiG-3 of high quality drawn by Anton Petrov. In English.

https://waralbum.ru/photo/weapons/aircrafts/russian_aircrafts/mig-3/ site with wide wartime photo galleries, incuding an excellent one on MiG-3s.

https://zaika70.livejournal.com/ Blog with a wide collection of commented historical photos, included many on MiG-3s.

https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=875&t=93594 Czech forum with an excellent topic with historical photos of MiG-3.

http://imf.forum24.ru/?0-4 forum with historicap photos and their identification, in Russian

https://naukatehnika.com/tags/tag/mig-3/ Articles on MiG-3 on an online technical magazine, in Russian

https://naukatehnika.com/dvuxsotyij-uxodit-v-nebo.html

https://naukatehnika.com/ot-mig-1-do-mig-3.html

https://naukatehnika.com/esli-zavtra-vojna.html

https://naukatehnika.com/vse-dlya-fronta-vse-dlya-pobedyi.html

https://vk.com/sssrvvs excellent blog with historicap photos, in Russian

http://fighters.forumactif.com/t99566-1-72-du-i-200-aux-mig-13-et-9-emhar-rpm-hobbyboss-art-model-scratch building of a wide thematic collection of MiGs in 1/72 by Bernard Le Guenno (BLG), in French

Thanks to the following persons that have helped the update of the MiG-1/3 page in 2022 and later:

Daniele Righi (Righidan), Aleksandrs Ruchkovskis, Anton Petrov, Bernard Le Guenno (BLG), Vladislav Archipov (PG_monster), Vitaliy Timoshenko (Tora)

Thanks to the following persons that have contributed to this work in the past years:

Audrius Nairanauskas, Jouni Ronkko, Robert Peczkowski, Kovalsky Alexey, Matthias Erben, Ilya Grimberg, Gianpiero Manca, Stephane Wrobel, Andi Szekeres; Lee Jong Tae, Hannu Valtonen, Dmitriy Sribny, Thomas Siepert, Rostislav Bardokin, Aleksej Ilic, Jan Koennig, Kai Mecklin, Liuzimin, Alexey Matvienko, Alexander Ruchkovsky, John Myers, István Vadász, Jan van den Heuvel, Carl-Fredrik Geust, Przemek Skulski, Valera Mel'nikov,
Basil, Mark Sheppard, Peter Schömer, Yuri Pasholok, Marcin Widomski, Michael Neradkov, Pascal Divay, Honza Jezl, Chris Hewitt, Uwe Borchert, Libor Jekl, Plator Kalakulla, Gregory T. Conterio, Jan Karnik.

DISCLAIMER 

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