At the beginning of the Second World War, MiG was founded by two aircraft engineers, Artyom Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Thus began a unique history. For decades, MiG aircraft have been among the most well-known and powerful military aircraft in the world and broke a number of records, both through their flight performance and with their large production numbers. Starting with the MiG-1 from 1939 to the MiG-35 of the year 2011, the world famous aircraft manufacturer and its products are presented in this Fact File edition. Numerous pioneering prototypes are described. AUTHOR: Rudolf Hofling is a freelance photographer at the Austria Press Agency and employee of several German-language aviation magazines. Since the early 1990s, he has become known to a wider audience through publication in German and English modelling magazines. 140 illustrations