Nadezhda Zhurkina

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WWII Pe-2 radio operator, one of only four women to become full cavalier of Order of Glory

Lived 1920 to 2002 · aged 81

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Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Zhurkina was a radio operator and gunner in the 99th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment during the Second World War and one of only four women to be awarded all three classes of the Order of Glory.

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Zhurkina's medals in a museum

Awards 14

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Badge of Honour

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For Courage"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of Glory Third Class

Order of Glory Second Class

Order of Glory First Class

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Patriotic War

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Connected to Nadezhda 6

Vasiliy RakovAlso won Order of the Patriotic War

Nikolay KuznetsovAlso won Order of Glory Second Class Aleksandr ChapayevAlso won Order of the Patriotic War Rady PogodinAlso won Order of Glory Second Class

Andrey AlyoshinAlso won Order of Glory First Class

Ivan DrachenkoAlso won Order of Glory First Class

About this person

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deceased

Dates

Lived 1920 to 2002 · aged 81

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