On 2 April 1945 he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union again for flying 185 missions. He was awarded his second gold star after the end of the war on 27 June 1945. By the end of the war, he flew a total of 187 missions on the Il-2, during which he engaged in 23 dogfights, gaining two personal and three shared shootdowns of enemy aircraft. While Stolyarov usually flew during the day, 16 his sorties during the war were night missions, and he was praised for flying well in poor weather conditions with limited visibility in addition to ground-based anti-aircraft fire and strong counterattacks from enemy fighters. He had survived flying in the battles for Kursk, Kharkov, Belogorod, Berlin, and Prague in addition to taking part in many offensive and defensive operations.
