Stepan Anastasi Mikoyan (Armenian: Ստեփան Անաստասի Միկոյան; Russian: Степан Анаста́сович Микоян; July 12, 1922, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, TSFSR – March 24, 2017, Moscow, Russia)[1] was a Soviet test pilot.
[3] Stepan Mikoyan was born on July 12, 1922, in Tbilisi into the family of Soviet state figure, member of Politburo and future Socialist Labor Hero and Soviet Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan.
Stepan's father was a brother of renowned Soviet aircraft designer Artyom Mikoyan.
[7][8] From August 1940, he served in the combat units of the Red Army Air Forces.He graduated on September 3, 1941, in the city of Krasny Kut in the Saratov region, where the school was evacuated after the start of the Great Patriotic War.
On January 16, 1942, Stepan Mikoyan's plane was mistakenly shot down by another Soviet fighter near the city of Istra in the Moscow Region.