# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raisa-surnachevskaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:25:29.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raisa-surnachevskaya"
name: "Raisa Surnachevskaya"
slug: "raisa-surnachevskaya"
description: "Raisa Nefedovna Surnachevskaya was a Soviet fighter pilot and squadron commander during World War II, as well as one of the very few pregnant women to have flown in combat. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 she volunteered to join a women's aviation regiment founded by Marina Raskova and underwent training to fly Yakovlev Yak-1 fighters at Engels military Aviation School. She was assigned to the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment for the war; on a mission with Tamara Pamyatnykh she shot down two Junkers Ju 88 bombers while patrolling a railway junction after a formation of 42 bombers approached. After they each shot down two planes and Pamyatnykh attempted to ram a third the formation turned around without dropping their payloads on the railways."
tagline: "Soviet WWII pilot (1922–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Raisa_Nefedovna_Surnachevskaya.jpg"
gender: "female"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1922-08-08"
deathDate: "2005-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.24
  momentum:             9.545454545454545
  historical:           6.338013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%97%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Сурначевська Раїса Нефедівна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "رايسا سورناتشيڤسكايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%AFssa_Surnatx%C3%A9vskaia"
    title: "Raïssa Surnatxévskaia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisa_Surnachevskaya"
    title: "Raisa Surnachevskaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisa_Surnachevskaia"
    title: "Raisa Surnachevskaia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%AFssa_Sournatchevska%C3%AFa"
    title: "Raïssa Sournatchevskaïa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Сурначевская, Раиса Нефедовна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q961317"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump