I stumbled across Richard Pawling's site and his beautiful artwork of a 1936 MAI student design for a VTOL fighter:
http://www.rp-one.net/sokol_vtol/sokol_vtol.html
Other than this one page, I can find nothing else on this design, though Pawling does reference a Russian magazine article, "Aviatsia i Cosmonavtika Magazin" (1999). Does anyone have any more info on this design?
For that matter, does anyone have any more 1930s Soviet "secret projects" to share? I love the "Tin Tin in the Soviet Union" look of this one.
Thanks and regards,
Matthew