Ivan Golubin was credited with 13 personal and 2 group victories, and was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. He died when the MiG-3 he was piloting crashed in bad weather on 01NOV42. The model depicts the aircraft he flew with the 434th FAR in July 1942 over Stalingrad.
Construction posts here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/yakovlev-yak-7b-build-in-1-72-scale-dakoplast-and-valom-kits-part-i/