This list of Russian and Soviet aviators includes the noteworthy

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of the

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, the

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and the

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. The majority of pilots listed here served in the Imperial Russian Air Force, the

Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

or the modern

Russian Air Force "Air March" , mascot = , anniversaries = 12 August , equipment = , equipment_label = , battles = , decorations = , batt ...

(or continue to serve in the latter). The aircrew members listed below either performed notable feats in aviation, held senior positions in Russian military aviation, and/or received national or international decorations for their aviation service.

Alphabetical list

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Vsevolod Abramovich Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Abramovich (russian: Всеволод Михайлович Абрамович; August 11, 1890 – April 24, 1913) was a pioneering aviator. Biography Abramovich was born on August 11, 1890 in Odessa, son of poet Mikhail Ab ...

, pioneer aviator killed on crash, inventor of

Abramovich Flyer The Abramovich Flyer was an early aircraft built by Russian aviator Vsevolod Mikhailovich Abramovich in 1912, based on the Wright brothers' designs he had seen while working for their German subsidiary. Differences from the Wright designs of t ...

* Sergey Anokhin, Soviet

test pilot A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques.Stinton, Darrol. ''Flying Qualities and Flight Testin ...

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

Pavel Argeyev Capitaine Pavel Vladimirovich Argeyev (russian: Па́вел Влади́мирович Арге́ев) (March 1, 1887 – October 30, 1922), also known as Paul d'Argueev and ''The Eagle of Crimea'', was a Russian-born flying ace of World War I, ...

, Russia's third most successful

fighter ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...

during World War I in Russia and France

B

* Yekaterina Budanova, World War II pilot, one of the world's two female

C

Valery Chkalov Valery Pavlovich Chkalov ( rus, Валерий Павлович Чкалов, p=vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕkaləf; – 15 December 1938) was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936). Early life Chkalov was bo ...

, flew the first

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by airplane over the

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* Mikhail Devyatayev, World War II flying ace, awarded the

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

Order of Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of th ...

Order of the Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisa ...

and

Mariya Dolina Mariya Ivanovna Dolina ( ua, Марія Іванівна Доліна, russian: Мария Ивановна Долина; 18 December 1922 – 3 March 2010) was a Pe-2 pilot and deputy squadron commander in the women's 125th “Marina M. Raskova� ...

, female

dive bomber A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that Dive (aviation), dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the Aerial bomb, bomb it drops. Diving towards the target simplifies the bomb's trajectory and allows the pilot to ...

pilot,

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Viktor Federov Lieutenant Viktor Georgiyevich Fyodorov (11 November 1885 - 4 March 1922) was a Russian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories while flying with the French military air service. Having left Russia for Belgium in 1908, with a fur ...

, flying ace, received the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...

and two other French decorations during World War I

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Nikolai Gastello Captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello (russian: Николай Францевич Гастелло, April 23, 1907 – June 26, 1941) was a Russian aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is one of the best known Soviet war heroes, being the bes ...

, the first Soviet pilot to direct his burning aircraft at a ground target,

Polina Gelman Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, uk, Поли́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 191925 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guard ...

, World War II bomber pilot, one of the ''

Night Witches "Night Witches" (german: die Nachthexen; russian: Ночные ведьмы, ) was a World War II German nickname for the all-female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviati ...

'',

* Juri Gilsher, World War I flying ace amputee, awarded four decorations for valor * Alexander Golovanov,

Chief Marshal Chief marshal of the branch (russian: Главный маршал рода войск, Glavny marshal roda voysk) was a senior military rank of the Soviet Armed Forces. It was immediately above the rank of Marshal of the branch. Both ranks were ...

of Aviation at the end of World War II, Commander of

Long Range Aviation Long-Range Aviation ( rus, Авиация Дальнего Действия, r=Aviatsiya dal'nego deystviya, abbr. to AДД, or ADD, and literally ''Aviation of Distant Action'') is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces responsible for delive ...

* Sergey Gritsevets, fighter ace during the

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and the

Battle of Khalkhin Gol The Battles of Khalkhin Gol (russian: Бои на Халхин-Голе; mn, Халхын голын байлдаан) were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Ja ...

, & the first to be recognised twice as

Valentina Grizodubova Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova (russian: Валенти́на Степа́новна Гризоду́бова, uk, Валентина Степанівна Гризодубова ''Valentyna Stepanivna Hryzodubova''; in Kharkov – 28 April 199 ...

, one of the first Soviet female pilots and

Heroes of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

, set a record for woman's ultralong flights * Mikhail Gromov, set a record during the transcontinental flight over the

, founded the

Gromov Flight Research Institute The Gromov Flight Research Institute or GFRI for short (russian: link=no, Лётно-исследовательский институт имени М. М. Громова, russian: link=no, ЛИИ) is an important Russian State Researc ...

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Vladimir Ilyushin Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin (russian: Владимир Серге́евич Ильюшин; 31 March 1927 – 1 March 2010) was a Soviet general and test pilot, and the son of aerospace engineer Sergey Ilyushin. He spent most of his career as a ...

for OKB Sukhoi,

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Nikolai Kamanin Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet aviator, awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS ''Chelyuskin'' crew f ...

, polar aviator, among the first to be decorated as

, trained the first ever

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s, including

Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...

Gherman Titov Gherman Stepanovich Titov (russian: Герман Степанович Титов; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yu ...

and

Alexei Leonov Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov. (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during th ...

* Rafael Kaprelyan,

, holder of 10 world records for

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribut ...

Alexander Kazakov Alexander Alexandrovich Kazakov (Kozakov, Kosakoff) (russian: Александр Александрович Казаков) (2 January 1889 – 1 August 1919) (British Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross and the French Légion d'honneu ...

, the most successful Russian

flying ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...

of World War I, the first to perform an

aerial ramming Aerial ramming or air ramming is the ramming of one aircraft with another. It is a last-ditch tactic in air combat, sometimes used when all else has failed. Long before the invention of aircraft, ramming tactics in naval warfare and ground warfare ...

and survive * Timofey Khryukin, fighter ace during

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Thea ...

and World War II, double

* Sergei Khudyakov, Marshal of Aviation during World War II, chief of staff of the Soviet Air Force *

Vladimir Kokkinaki Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki (russian: Владимир Константинович Коккинаки; – 6 January 1985) was a test pilot in the Soviet Union, notable for setting twenty-two world records and serving as president of the ...

, set twenty-two world records, later President of the

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(twice) * Nikolai Kokorin, World War I flying ace, winner of three awards for valor * Zinaïda Kokorina, pilot and flight instructor, in 1925 became the world's first military pilot * Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, test pilot and first women's world aerobatics champion * Ivan Kozhedub, Allied "Ace of Aces" in World War II, credited with sixty-four victories, three-time

earner * Sergei Kramarenko, fighter ace in World War II and the

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* Stepan Kretov, long-range

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pilot during World War II, double

Yevgraph Kruten '' Podpolkovnik'' Yevgraf Nikolaevich Kruten was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories. He began World War I as an aerial observer with three years experience in military aviation. After a year's seasoning, he was recommen ...

, World War I fighter ace flew for, and won decorations from, both Imperial Russian and French Air Forces * Nikolai Kuimov, chief test pilot for

Ilyushin The public joint stock company Ilyushin Aviation Complex, operating as Ilyushin (russian: Илью́шин) or as Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a former Soviet and now a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau, founded in 1933 by Sergey V ...

Hero of the Russian Federation Hero of the Russian Federation (russian: Герой Российской Федерации, Geroy Rossiyskoy Federatsii), also unofficially Hero of Russia (russian: link=no, Герой России, Geroy Rossii), is the highest honorary title ...

* Pavel Kutakhov, World War II fighter ace,

of Aviation during the

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...

era, double

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Ernst Leman Ensign Ernst Krislanovich Leman (1894–1917) was a Russian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. Biography Ernst Krislanovich Leman was born in 1894 to a middle class Lutheran family in Latvia. Leman enlisted as a Private o ...

, World War I flying ace, recipient of four gallantry medals * Sigismund Levanevsky, polar aviator, among the first to receive the honour of

, died in a transpolar flight attempt *

Anatoly Liapidevsky Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky (russian: link=no, Анатолий Васильевич Ляпидевский; 23 March 1908 – 29 April 1983) was a Soviet aircraft pilot and one of first people to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Un ...

, polar aviator, the very first person to receive the honour of

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of Aviation * Lydia Litvyak, World War II pilot, one of the world's two female

* Ivan Loiko, World War I flying ace, recipient of five awards for valor Natalya Meklin portrait

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* Donat Makijonek, flying ace of the Imperial Russian Air Service in World War I and recipient of 15 decorations for valor *

Alexey Maresyev Aleksey Petrovich Maresyev (russian: Алексей Петрович Маресьев; 5 May 1916 – 19 May 2001) was a Russian military pilot who became a Soviet fighter ace during World War II despite becoming a double amputee. Biog ...

, World War II fighter ace,

, the prototype for ''

The Story of a Real Man ''The Story of a Real Man'' (russian: Повесть о настоящем человеке, translit=Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke, link=no) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, his opus 117. It was written from 1 ...

'' * Natalya Meklin, World War II bomber pilot & one of the ''

'',

* Arseny Mironov, aerospace engineer and aviator, scientist in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing Mironov, Arseny Dmitryevich 2017

* Vasily Molokov, polar aviator, among the first to receive the honour of

of Aviation Vasily Molokov (cropped)

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* Ivan Nagurski, first polar

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Pyotr Nesterov Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov (russian: Пётр Николаевич Нестеров ( – ) was a Russian pilot, an aircraft designer and an aerobatics pioneer. Life and career Nesterov was born on 15 February 1887 in Nizhny Novgorod, int ...

, inventor and pioneer of

aerobatics Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glider ...

, the first pilot to perform the

aerobatic loop Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aerial" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and glider ...

, died while scoring the world's first air combat victory by

an Austrian plane during World War I *

Alexander Novikov Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Но́виков; – 3 December 1976) was the chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Force during the Soviet Union's involvement in t ...

of Aviation during World War II, double

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* Prince Alexander Obolensky, "the Flying Slav", Russian émigré World War II

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pilot * Ivan Orlov, World War I flying ace, served with, and received decorations for valor from both the Imperial Russian and French governments * Vasily Osipov, World War II

pilot, double

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* Yevgeny Pepelyaev, top Soviet fighter ace in the

* Alexander Pishvanov, World War I flying ace, recipient of five decorations for valor *

Viktor Pokrovsky Viktor Leonidovich Pokrovsky (russian: Покровский Виктор Леонидович) (1889 – 9 November 1922) was a Russian lieutenant general and one of the leaders of anti-communist counterrevolutionary White Army during Russian Civil ...

, World War I flying ace, the first Russian pilot to capture an enemy plane and pilot *

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, World War II

, credited with 59 individual victories, thrice

, Marshal of Aviation *

Nadezhda Popova Nadezhda Vasilveyna Popova (russian: Наде́жда Васи́льевна Попо́ва, uk, Надія Василівна Попова; 17 December 1921 – 8 July 2013) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regimen ...

, Squadron Leader in the ''Night Witches'' * Vitaly Popkov, one of the top World War II fighter aces, credited with 41 individual victories, double

* Alexander Prokofiev de Seversky, World War I naval aviator,

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aviation pioneer and inventor * Georgy Prokofiev, balloonist who coordinated military stratospheric balloon program in 1930s, set world record in altitude on '' USSR-1'' * Viktor Pugachyov, test pilot and pioneer of

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, the first to show

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maneuver of

Su-27 The Sukhoi Su-27 (russian: Сухой Су-27; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large US fourth-generation j ...

* Eduard Pulpe, World War I flying ace, recipient of awards for valor from both the Imperial Russian and French governments *

Endel Puusepp Endel Puusepp (russian: Эндель Карлович Пусэп; 1 May 1909 – 18 June 1996) was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin, who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of t ...

, long-range bomber pilot, famous for flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington D.C. and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front,

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Marina Raskova Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova ( rus, Мари́на Миха́йловна Раско́ва, , mɐˈrʲinə mʲɪˈxajləvnə rɐˈskovə; née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma ...

, navigator, founder of the three female air regiments during World War II,

* Grigoriy Rechkalov, one of the top World War II fighter aces, credited with 56 individual victories, double

* Yevgeniya Rudneva, senior navigator of the ''

'',

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* Mikhail Safonov, World War I flying ace, recipient of two decorations for valor * Yevgeniy Savitskiy, World War II fighter ace, Marshal of Aviation, double

Irina Sebrova Irina Fyodorovna Sebrova (russian: Ирина Фёдоровна Себрова; – 5 April 2000) was a flight commander in the women's 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, also known as the Night Witches, during the Second World War ...

, World War II bomber pilot, one of the ''

'',

* Yevgeniya Shakhovskaya, the first woman military pilot * Lev Shestakov, top Soviet fighter ace during the

Mark Shevelev Mark Ivanovich Shevelev (; – 6 October 1991) was a Soviet pilot during World War II and one of founders of Soviet polar aviation. He was a head of aviation department Aviaarktika of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, a Hero of the ...

, Commander of Soviet Polar aviation during World War II,

* Ivan Smirnov, recipient of five Russian and two foreign military decorations, fourth ranking fighter ace of the Imperial Russian Air Service during World War I * Yakov Smushkevich, Commander of the Soviet aviation in the

and in the

, double

* Nelson Stepanyan, World War II

pilot, destroyed scores of enemy ships, tanks, cars, planes and guns, double

* Vladimir Strizhesky, recipient of the Cross of St. George and the Order of the Crown of Romania, victor of seven aerial battles during World War I *

Amet-khan Sultan Amet-khan Sultan ( Crimean Tatar: Amet-Han Sultan, Амет-Хан Султан, احمدخان سلطان; Russian: Амет-Хан Султан; 20 October 1920 – 1 February 1971) was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace in the Soviet ...

, World War II fighter ace, double

, test pilot who died in a plane crash Amet-khan Sultan (cropped)

Nikolay Sutyagin Nikolai Vasilyevich Sutyagin (russian: Николай Васильевич Сутягин; 5 May 1923 – 12 November 1986) was a Soviet fighter pilot in the Second World War and the Korean War. He is considered by most Russian sources to be the ...

, top

Soviet fighter ace,

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* Victor Talalikhin, World War II fighter ace, among the first to perform

at night,

* Igor Tkachenko, Commander of the Russian Knights

V

* Konstantin Vakulovsky, World War I fighter ace, recipient of three gallantry awards * Andrey Vitruk, World War II fighter ace,

of Aviation, honoured as

and Hero of Yugoslavia * Pavel Vlasov,

Igor Volk Igor Petrovich Volk (russian: Игорь Петрович Волк, ; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Soviet test pilot and cosmonaut in the Buran programme. Military and test pilot Volk became a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces in ...

* Mikhail Vodopyanov, polar aviator,

, commanded the first Soviet air raid on Berlin in 1941 Mikhail Vodopyanov, 1930's

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Vasili Yanchenko ''Kapitan'' Vasili Ivanovich Yanchenko (1 January 1894 – August 1959) was a World War I flying ace credited with 16 aerial victories. He graduated his secondary education as a mechanical engineer in 1913, with an interest in aviation. He learne ...

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Anna Yegorova Anna Alexandrovna Timofeyeva-Yegorova (russian: Анна Александровна Тимофеева-Егорова; 23 September 1916 – 29 October 2009) was a pilot in the Soviet Air Force during the Second World War. She flew a total of 27 ...

, World War II bomber pilot,

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survivor,

* Ruben Yesayan,

* Kirill Yevstigneev, one of the top World War II fighter aces, credited with 53 individual victories, double

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* Yekaterina Zelenko, World War II pilot, the only woman ever alleged to have to have performed an

Notes

References

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. Soviet Air Defence Forces .

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