The Yak-9 was a Russian fighter aircraft which was used from 1942 to 1948. Almost 17,000 were built and the plane saw action in Korea. The 1943 version had performance similar to a P51 Mustang but suffered engine reliability problems.
Details of the development and version history here.
As an aside, In the nineties a few more were produced for the vintage warbird market, they used an Allison engine which turned in the opposite direction to the original Russian WW2 Klimov engines.
Below, on the ground...
Got to see a famous Yak 9U at the Monino air museum outside of Moscow. Back then they had the canopy cracked open and you could drop money into the cockpit to help with the restoration, there were plenty of Rubles piled in there too! One of the great museums to see if you can.
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