The museum’s collection includes a photograph of Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin (1916–1956), a prominent Soviet test pilot. The picture was taken in 1944. The serviceman was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union twice — in 1944 and 1945. It was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union.

Prior to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Georgy Parshin worked for a long time as an instructor pilot in various aero clubs in Dnepropetrovsk, Cheboksary and Grozny. He joined the Red Army in 1941, and went to the front in September of the same year.

During the war with Nazi Germany, Parshin was a fighter pilot, flight commander, commander of an aviation squadron, navigator and commander of an assault aviation regiment. In the summer of 1943, he completed Air Force advanced officer training courses in Sergiyevsk.

On June 9, 1944, Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin made his first flight on an Il-2 attack aircraft which he had never flown before. On its side was written: “Revenge of the Barinovs”. The aircraft was quickly built in early 1944, after the Leningrad blockade was lifted, with money donated by the surviving members of the Barinov family — Praskovya Vasilyevna and Yevgenia Petrovna.

Parshin participated in the Baltic strategic offensive and in the Battle of Konigsberg. In the spring of 1945, his Il was shot down in a battle with six Nazi fighter aircraft. Georgy Parshin was wounded, but he managed to eject. Once he landed, he continued to fight in enemy territory. Together with a gunner-radio operator, Parshin found a road and killed a fascist officer who was passing by on a motorcycle.

During the Great Patriotic War, Georgy Parshin made 253 sorties, 100 of them on the Il-2 “Revenge of the Barinovs” aircraft. In dogfights, he personally shot down 10 enemy planes. After the war, the pilot worked in the civil air fleet and as a test pilot at the Moscow Aviation Plant No. 30.

Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin died on March 13, 1956. He crashed while piloting an Il-28 aircraft to film the mid-air refueling of a MiG-19 by a Tu-16. The pilot was awarded the Order of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, and the orders of Suvorov 3rd Class, Alexander Nevsky, the Patriotic War 1st Class, as well as other medals.