During the war, he made 330 sorties, led 120 air battles as a unit commander, and personally shot down 62 enemy aircraft.

According to the ratio of air battles and enemy planes shot down in them, he was recognized as the most effective pilot of the Second World War's Eastern Front, winning three Gold Medals as a Hero of the Soviet Union.

In different years the military institutions which became part of the KNUAF were named after prominent commanders LO Govorov, MI Krylov, OM Vasilevsky and SI Gritsevets.

The first detachment of astronauts included our world-famous graduate OA Leonov – twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the first person to go into outer space.

[3] On 25 September 2020, an An-26 military plane with 20 cadets and 7 officers of the KNUAF crashed and immediately caught fire in Chuhuiv, Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast.

The German-Soviet war provided a powerful impetus for the further development of aviation, air defense, missile forces, and artillery.

In different years, the following famous graduates studied at the university: Among the university graduates are commanders-in-chief and deputy commanders-in-chief of the Armed Forces, commanders of armies and corps, division commanders, 407 generals, members of academies of sciences, State Prize winners, doctors, and candidates of science, honored scientists, education and higher education.

The high authority of the university is evidenced by the fact that over the past decade it has been recognized 5 times the best rated educational institution in Ukraine with the award of a bronze statuette "Sophia of Kyiv".