List of female Heroes of the Russian Federation

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This is a list of female Heroes of the Russian Federation; of the over 1,000 people awarded the title, 19 are women.

NameDateFeatReferences
Alime Abdenanova 1 September 2014Reconnaissance scout in World War II [1]
Aleksandra Akimova 31 December 1994Squadron navigator in the "Night Witches" [2]
Marem Arapkhanova 3 June 2003Alerted her town to presence of rebels in Second Chechen War [3]
Nina Brusnikova 5 October 2006Farm worker who fought a fire [4]
Yekaterina Budanova 1 October 1993 Fighter pilot during World War II [5]
Lona Cohen 15 June 1996Spied on the United States [6]
Natalya Kachuevskaya 12 May 1997Medic in World War II [7]
Olga Kachura 4 August 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War [8]
Yelena Kondakova 10 April 1995 Cosmonaut [9]
Valentina Kravchenko 10 April 1995Navigator in 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment [10]
Larisa Lazutina 27 February 1998Olympic ski champion [11]
Vasilisa Pashchenko 16 August 2021Gunner/radio-operator on A-20 bomber during World War II [12]
Marina Plotnikova 25 August 1992Rescued three children from drowning [13]
Yelena Serova 15 February 2016Cosmonaut [14]
Lidiya Shulaykina 1 October 1993 Il-2 pilot in World War II [15]
Tatyana Sumarokova 11 October 1995Squadron navigator in the "Night Witches" [16]
Vera Voloshina 6 May 1994Partisan in World War II [17]
Lyubov Yegorova 22 April 1994Olympic ski champion [18]
Irina Yanina 14 October 1999Medic in War of Dagestan [19]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yevgeniya Rudneva</span> Soviet aviator (1920–1944)

Yevgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva was the head navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Prior to World War II she was an astronomer, the head of the Solar Department of the Moscow branch of the Astronomical-Geodesical Society of the USSR.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Polina Gelman</span> Soviet military aviator (1919–2005)

Polina Vladimirovna Gelman was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rufina Gasheva</span>

Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator during World War II who served with the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment and recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Postwar, she continued to serve and was a lecturer in foreign languages at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy before her retirement. After retiring, Gasheva worked in the Bureau of Foreign Military Literature at Voenizdat.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Ulyanenko</span> Soviet aviator (1923–2005)

Nina Zakharovna Ulyanenko was a navigator, pilot and flight commander in the women's 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II, after which she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 18 August 1945.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mariya Polivanova</span> Soviet sniper

Mariya Semyonovna Polivanova was a Soviet sniper during World War II. On 14 August 1942, surrounded by German soldiers whilst she and her friend Natalya Kovshova had only two grenades left, they set them off, killing themselves and surrounding German soldiers. For their bravery she and Kovshova were posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 14 February 1943.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vera Kashcheyeva</span>

Vera Sergeyevna Kashcheyeva was a medic in the 120th Rifle Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for her actions in the Dnieper crossing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyudmila Kravets</span>

Lyudmila Stepanovna Kravets was a medic in the 63rd Guards Rifle Regiment during World War II. For her actions in the war, she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 31 May 1945.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mariya Shkarletova</span>

Mariya Savelyevna Shkarletova was a field medic in the 170th Guards Rifle Regiment during World War II. During the war she participated in offensive operations in Ukraine, Moldova, and Poland for which she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 March 1945.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko</span>

Zinaida Mikhailovna Tusnolobova-Marchenko was a medic of the Red Army in the 849th Rifle Regiment during World War II. After being attacked by a German soldier in Kursk, suffering from severe frostbite, and getting gangrenous wounds she became a quadruple amputee. With her injuries forcing her to retire from the military she spoke on the radio and wrote an open letter to the soldiers of the 1st Baltic Front which received over 3,000 replies. She was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 6 December 1957 and the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1965, making her the third Soviet woman to receive the medal from the Red Cross.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aleksandra Akimova</span>

Aleksandra Akimova was a Soviet squadron navigator in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during the Second World War. In 1994 she became one of the few women awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Gnilitskaya</span>

Nina Timofeevna Gnilitskaya was a soldier and reconnaissance scout in the 465th Separate Motorized Rifle Reconnaissance Company of the 383rd Rifle Division in the 18th Army on the Southern Front during World War II. After fighting to death in a gunfight against German soldiers when they discovered her hiding place she became the only woman reconnaissance scout in the Red Army to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union after the Supreme Soviet posthumously awarded her the title on 31 March 1943.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Maslovskaya</span> Soviet Belarusian partisan (1920–1980)

Anna Ivanovna Maslovskaya was a Soviet partisan in the Byelorussian SSR during German occupation in the Second World War. She was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 August 1945 by decree of the Supreme Soviet for her resistance activities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valentina Safronova</span> Soviet partisan and intelligence officer (1918–1943)

Valentina Ivanovna Safronova was a Soviet partisan and intelligence officer who engaged in reconnaissance and sabotage until she was captured and killed by the Gestapo. On 8 May 1965, over twenty years after her death, she was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Petrova</span> Soviet sniper (1893–1945)

Nina Pavlovna Petrova was a Soviet sniper during the Winter War and World War II. She was credited with 122 kills by soviet government. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Glory 1st class on 29 June 1945, making her one of only four women to be awarded all three classes of the award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Danutė Stanelienė</span> Soviet machine gunner (1922–1994)

Danutė Stanelienė was a machine gunner in the 167th Infantry Regiment of the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division during World War II. On 24 March 1945, she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Glory 1st class.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matrena Necheporchukova</span>

Matrena Semyonovna Nazdracheva, née Necheporchukova was a combat medic in Red Army who rescued 250 wounded soldiers and officers during World War II. On 15 May 1946 she was awarded the Order of Glory 1st Class and became one of only four women to receive all three classes of that order.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lidiya Shulaykina</span>

Lidiya Ivanovna Shulaykina was one of the few women Ilyushin Il-2 pilots and the only female ground-attack pilot in naval aviation during the Second World War. In 1993 she was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natalya Kachuevskaya</span>

Natalya Aleksandrovna Kachuevskaya née Spirova was a medic in the Red Army during World War II who committed suicide with a grenade when surrounded, taking out several enemy soldiers in her death as well as avoiding capture. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 1997.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Brusnikova</span>

Nina Vladimirovna Brusnikova is a member of United Russia's Supreme Council. Currently retired from farmwork, she became a recipient of the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2006 for her actions fighting a fire at the livestock complex she worked at.

References

  1. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 278-279.
  2. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 280-283.
  3. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 284.
  4. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 285.
  5. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 286-288.
  6. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 298-299.
  7. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 294-295.
  8. ↑ "Качура Ольга Сергеевна". www.warheroes.ru. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  9. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 296-297.
  10. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 303-305.
  11. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 300-301.
  12. ↑ Karimov, Timur. "Пащенко Василиса Сергеевна". warheroes.ru. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  13. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 302.
  14. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 306-307.
  15. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 312-314.
  16. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 308-311.
  17. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 289-291.
  18. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 292-293.
  19. ↑ Simonov & Chudinova 2017, p. 315-316.

Bibliography

Simonov, Andrey; Chudinova, Svetlana (2017). Женщины - Герои Советского Союза и России. Moscow: Russian Knights Foundation, Museum of Technology V. Zadorozhny. ISBN   9785990960701. OCLC   1019634607.

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