Ivan Grigorevich Borisov (Russian: Иван Григорьевич Борисов; 28 September 1921 – 10 August 1954) was a pilot in the Soviet Air Force who became a flying ace and served as the wingman to Amet-khan Sultan while in the prestigious 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment during the Second World War.
He graduated from the Moscow Oktyabrsky flight club in 1939, and from May to December 1940 he attended the Chkalov Central Aeroclub in Tushino, after which he entered the Soviet military.
[1] Upon entering the military in December 1940 Borisov trained at the Ostafyevsky school of pilots until early summer 1941 when the German invasion of the Soviet Union began; he was immediately deployed to the front as a sergeant in the 309th Fighter Aviation Regiment, which was an air-defense regiment assigned to protecting Moscow.
In October he was reassigned to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment as a flight commander, which he served in for the remainder of the war.
During the war he became a flying ace and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 1 November 1943 for scoring ten individual and eight shared victories.