license. Until 1950, he was also involved in test flights as navigator and flight test engineer on aircraft such as the Il-2, Pe-8, Tu-2, and Yak-9. Mironov's flight training in gliding started before the war in Chkalov Central Aero-club in Moscow under the supervision of Sergey Anokhin. Mironov's flight instructor was Margarita Ratsenskaya, the aero-club's gliding squad commander and Anokhin's wife. Due to a mutual interest in gliding, Mironov became closely acquainted with Oleg Antonov and frequently piloted the Antonov A-15 glider. Family Mironov was married to Olga Yevgenevna Rudneva (; 1919–2017) for 77 years. Rudneva studied in the same class in the MAI with her future husband. She worked at Kazan Aviation Plant and for the GFRI as a lead flight test engineer. The couple had two children. Their son, Mikhail Mironov (; born 1944), is a Doctor of Physics and Math and an acoustic scientist working for the Andreyev Acoustics Institute. Their daughter, Olga Maksakova (Mironova) (; born 1946) is a psychotherapy practitioner and a Doctor of Medicine working for the Burdenko Neurosurgery National Research Center. There are also two grandsons and one granddaughter. Awards Stalin Prize (1948) for development and implementation of a new method for aerodynamics research. USSR State Prize (1976) for flight testing and introduction into service the Su-24 tactical bomber. Order of Lenin (1971). Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1957). Order of the Badge of Honour (1966). Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970). Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1975). Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1985). Honoured Aircraft Engineer. Master of Sport of the USSR in gliding. Zhukovsky Honorary Citizen. Gromov Medal: highest corporate award of the GFRI (2011). On his 100th birthday ceremony on 25 December 2017, Mironov was awarded a Chest Badge "Medal of Small Arms Maker M.T. Kalashnikov" by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. Memorials Mironov is buried together with his wife Olga at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky. Bibliography Between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, as a chief editor and author, Mironov contributed to the book series Aviation Test Engineer Reference Bibliotheca, which consist of ten and a half monographs on different research and methodical aspects of aircraft flight testing. Mironov's major contributions include the following books: As an author and consulting editor, Mironov contributed in the academic publication, Mironov's