![]() ![]() Awarded 2 Orders of Lenin and Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class (posthumously). Zhukovski Air Force Academy (1932) graduated from Central Training Center of the Civil Air Fleet (1934) joined Red Army (1938) wrote Notes of a Navigator (1939) commanded an air detachment for the formation of air regiments and was made commander of a women's bombardment aviation regiment (1942) with Valentina Grizodubova and Polina Osipenko, flew 3,717 miles nonstop from Moscow to Soviet east coast near Japan (1938), a journey one-third longer than Amelia Earhart's solo flight, and crash landed, spending 10 days in the Siberian taiga until rescued. ![]() of teachers married with children.īegan work at air navigation laboratory of N.E. Born Marina Mikhailovna Raskova, Mar 28, 1912, in Moscow, Russia died Jan 4, 1943, in military combat, near Saratov buried in the Kremlin Wall in Red Square dau. ![]()
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