Polina Osipenko
Soviet aviator · Russia · On the map · Lived 1907 to 1939 · aged 31
Polina Denisovna Osipenko was a Soviet military pilot who, with Valentina Grizodubova and Marina Raskova on 24-25 September 1938, performed a nonstop flight between Moscow and the Sea of Okhotsk, setting a new women's nonstop flight distance record.
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For this, they were the first three women made Heroes of the Soviet Union on 2 November 1938.