Lavochkin LaGG-3

drawings and evolution

Drawings of Voronin, corrected by Pavel Sadovnikov
Updated on January 23, 2010

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Note: this text is provisional and based on many mails from Alex Ruchkowsky; the same researcher will produce an improved text as soon as possible.

A widely known classification of LaGG-3 variants takes its origin in the notes on the drawings of Voronin, and accepted by a great number of authors and books; although this classification is widely known and useful, it is a bit
outdated at the light of more recent knowledges.
Production started at 4 factories:

Zavod 23 in Leningrad,
Z.21 in Gorky,
Z.31 in Taganrog,
Z.153 then in Moscow (IIRC).

Before the war started, Z.21in Gorky turned out about 300 planes; Z.23 in Leningrad and Z.31 in Taganrog turned out about 100 planes together.
Soon after the war outbreak 3 factories wer evacuated:

Z.31, from Tagangrog went to Tbilisi and resumed in 1942;

Z.23 from Leningrad went to Novosibirsk and joined Z.153 there but was making LaGGs only for a short while in late 41, and then started building Yak-7; so Novosibirsk LaGGs are said to mostly stay at Far East.

Each factory led its own sequence of series (and not necessarily from number 1).
What is a series? It is a production batch. For fighters, it was normally 100 pieces in one series (for bombers it was 10). Series of same number at different factories did not match in all the specific details of the planes.
In the basic LaGG history, the main line is the sequence of the Gorky factory, Z. 21, which was the leading site. Other factories (in Leningrad, later Novosibirsk, and in Taganrog, later Tbilisi) were sort of subordinated (they received
all updates from Z.21 a bit later and gradually incorporated them).
Production started at different moments, so when Series 1 went on in Z. 21 nothing had yet started in Taganrog and Novosibirsk. Also, some sites were slower and some were faster, so Z. 21 was somewhere in series 37 when Z. 31
was somewhere in series 27 or 28.
Then Z.21 switched over to La-5, (I did not come across a series number bigger than 312137XX), after which the LaGG fuselages were used to build early La-5 (using the plywood fairings to harmonize transition from engine to
fuselage). So series 40 and later. never existed in Gorky.
Z.31 became the only site for LaGG-3; when launching an improved and lightened LaGG-3 (commonly known as "series 66"), they suddenly "jumped over" from Series 27 or 28 to Series 60 in their numbers; series 30/40/50 never
existed at Z. 31. Improved LaGGs had serial numbers in range between 60XX and 72XX until LaGG was written off and Z. 31 started building the Yak-3
Numbers of series were held independently at different factories but the way the planes looked did not necessarily match. In other words,
Series 3 of Z 31 does not necessarily look like Series 3 at Z 21. They could have a few differences. And Series 27 and 28 of Z 31 were not
similar to the corresponding 27-28 series of z21, they looked more like series 35 of Z. 21.

So those series and numbers are a bit tricky, nothing more than a production counter.
The most interesting thing about the group of planes with big numerals, such as white 14, 15, 20, 22, 25, 35, 42, 44, are with high probability built at Zavod 23 in Leningrad in Summer 1941, before the factory was evacuated to
Novosibirsk. 44 iap
records in summer-autumn 1941 show a lot of peculiarly formatted serial numbers (01100XX) that do not match either Z. 21 or Z. 31 and must belong to Z. 23. All the mentioned planes have a black-green camo as required at that
moment, but not matching the standard pattern applied on Z. 21/31, and without the fuselage star. The standard for those Zavod 23 series is 4 guns (2 ShKAS and 2 UB), with the stbd UB gun deleted. This corresponds nicely to the
fact that at the same time Gorky was building series 4/5/6/7 that did not have the stbd UB either but did have the horn compensators.
Zavod 31 planes were characterized by the small starlet on the fin and relatively big black serial number underneath it on the fin.
Some Z. 31 series had a strange aerial mast with a diagonal rod behind it.
There is no info on Z 153 in Novosibirsk at all , I only have 1 or 2 serials and also a suspicion that the well known Japanese LaGG could have been a Z 153 product.

LaGG-3 series
1 and 2 (till
plane n.51) of
Factory n.21
(3121101 to
3121251)
hatch on the
left side of
fuselage after
plane n.38 of
2nd serie

LaGG-3 series
2 (after plane
n.51) of
Factory n.21
(3121252 to
3121300)

LaGG-3 of
factory n.31,
and last 75
planes of
series 3 of
Factory
n.21.?????

Note the
change in oil
cooler intake,
in details of
the cowling
sides and the
more pointed
metal plate
behind the
exhaust pipes,
and the
'broken'
profile of
fuselage
behind of the
water cooler
outlet..

LaGG-3 series
3 of Factory
n.21, first 75
planes.
(3121301 to
3121375)

LaGG-3 series
3 of Factory
n.21, plane
n.76 and later.
(3121376 to
3121400)
Note the
suppression of
the UBS on
the right side.

LaGG-3 4th
serie and 5th
serie till plane
n.19, factory
n.21
(3121401 to
3121519)
Note the
addition of
two balance
masses on the
rudder, and the
new shape of
oil cooler
inlet.
Starting from
series 4 the 2
horn
compensatiors
appeared and
possibly some
planes had
them
retrofitted so
you probably
could find
Gorky planes
of series 1-3
that had
3x12.7+2x7.6
2 (like
Galckenko's
plane, for
example)
Some planes
conserved the
retractable tail
wheel with
doors, but
forthemost the
tail wheel was
locked
extracted.

LaGG-3 of 5th
serie, after the
20th plane, to
serie n.7 of
factory n.21.
(3121520 to
3121800)
Note the 20
mm gun in the
prop axis.

LaGG-3 from
plane n.15 of
the 7th serie to
serie 10.??
(3121801 to
31211015)

LaGG-3 of
factory n.23;
note the earlystyle cowling
sides, and the
longer flap of
the glycol
cooler outlet,
and the wider
step behind it
on the
fuselage.

After the very

first planes,
LaGG-3s of
Zavod 23 were
added with
balance horns,
while the
starboard UBS
was deleted.
Tail wheel
without doors
of planes of 44
IAP.
Tall radio
mast seen on
some planes.

front view of
some variants:
LaGG-3 of
series 1 and 2
of Zavod 21;
note the
squared
wingroot
intakes.
LaGG-3 of
serie 3 (till
plane n.75) of
Zavod 21;
note the
rounded
wingroot
intakes and a
new slot under
the nose;

LaGG-3 of
factory n.23;

LaGG-3 of 3rd
serie of
factory 21,
after plane
n.76;
note the
suppression of
the right UBS
on the nose;

LaGG-3 of
Zavod 23;
LaGG-3 after
15th plane of
serie 7 to serie
10 of factory
n.21
LaGG-3 of
factory 31,
similar to the
early batch of
3rd serie of
factory n.21.
LaGG-3 of 4th
serie till to
19th plane of
5th serie; note
the modified
shape of oil
cooler intake;
(small) ???
LaGG-3 after
plane 20 of 5
serie till to 7th
serie of
factory n.21.

Sections of the
wooden part
of fuselage of
LaGG-3.

http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1505&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=180
here is some discussion, in Russian, on the evolution of these drawings.

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