Polina Gelman

Soviet Air Force officer, Hero of the Soviet Union · Politicians · Lived 1919 to 2005 · aged 86

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Polina Vladimirovna Gelman was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II.

A life in dates

2005Died29 November 20051985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st classAward1956Order of the Red StarAward1951Medal "For Battle Merit"Award1946Hero of the Soviet UnionAwardOrder of LeninAward1945Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"AwardMedal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"AwardOrder of the Red BannerAward1944Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"AwardOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st classAward1943Order of the Red BannerAward1942Order of the Red StarAward1919Born24 October 1919

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Memorial plaque commemorating the Heroes of the Soviet Union who studied at the Gomel Aero Club.

Awards

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class1985

Order of the Red Star1956

Medal "For Battle Merit"1951

Hero of the Soviet Union1946

Order of Lenin1946

Order of the Red Banner1945

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

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"1945

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class1944

Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"1944

Order of the Red Banner1943

Order of the Red Star1942

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

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

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

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

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

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Zhukov Medal

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

In common with Polina

Mikhail MalininBoth received Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"Elena RzhevskayaBoth received Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Vasili OrdynskyBoth received Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"Yevgeny SavitskyBoth received Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"Emmanuil KazakevichBoth received Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Rufina GashevaBoth received Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"