Lev Kirillovich Shchukin (Russian: Лев Кириллович Щукин; 29 October 1923 – 2 May 2009) was a Soviet MiG-15 flying ace during early phase of the Korean War.

After being badly injured from bailing out of his stricken plane he continued to serve as an officer in the Soviet Air Force and was sent to various communist countries as a military adviser.

51-2746) which was often flown by Colonel Francis Gabreski, Executive Officer of the 4th Fighter Wing; some historians credit the attack as an aerial victory, although the aircraft was eventually repaired before being destroyed from combat on 21 November 1951.

[15][16] In a postwar interview Shchukin claimed that he and his colleagues shot down two F-84s and damaged another on 18 November, but American records indicate the loss of just one F-84 (No.

[10] Shchukin expected to die upon landing and sustaining the injuries, but he was discovered by nearby Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the ground.

He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1956, after which he held a variety of command posts as served as a military adviser in Vietnam and Egypt in addition to assisting in the training of soldiers from Warsaw pact states.

Because of his injuries from the war he was initially prohibited from flying jets by the medical commission, but after much persistence he managed to get the restrictions down to just a ban on parachuting.