- Period:
 - Second World War (1939-1945)
 - Rank:
  - Kapitan (Captain)
 - Unit:
  - 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Military Air Forces 
 - Awarded on:
  - October 26th, 1944
 
"Guards Captain Pylaev completed 285 sorties by May 1944. He personally downed 16 enemy planes and a further 94 enemy aircraft in 94 raids."
No. 4844