This volume is a detailed analysis of all the aircraft developed by Alexandr Yakovlev and, since his death in 1989, the Yak Aircraft Corporation in Russia. Yakovlev built the first jet to fly in the USSR and the first Soviet transport helicopters.

It produces the most important Russian twin-jet airliner, a diverse group of general-aviation aircraft, an advanced jet trainer and light-attack aircraft and, in conjunction with the Museum of Flying in California, replicas of the Yak-3 wartime fighter. This volume is a detailed analysis of all these and many other aircraft.