Historical FigureFemale
Rufina Gaszewa
1921 – 2012
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryRufina 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 14, 1921
Verkhnechusovskiye Gorodki
Date of death
May 1, 2012
Moscow
Citizenship
Soviet Union
Occupations & fields
aircraft pilotprofessoreditor
Awards & honours
Hero of the Soviet UnionOrder of LeninOrder of the Red BannerOrder of the Red BannerOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st classOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st class
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