Rufina Gasheva

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Soviet aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (1921-2012)

AcademicsLived 1921 to 2012 · aged 90

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Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator during World War II who served with the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment and recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Awards 28

1985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

1956Order of the Red Star

1951Medal "For Battle Merit"

1945Hero of the Soviet Union

1945Order of Lenin

1944Order of the Red Banner

1944Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

1944Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"

1943Order of the Red Banner

1942Order of the Red Star

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

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

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"

Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Zhukov Medal

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

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

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"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

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

Connected to Rufina 6

Yevgeny SavitskyAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Arkady VorobyovAlso won Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Philipp BobkovAlso won Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Irina RakobolskayaAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"Elena RzhevskayaAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Boris KravtsovAlso won Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

About this person

Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator during World War II who served with the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment and recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Postwar, she continued to serve and was a lecturer in foreign languages at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy before her retirement. After retiring, Gasheva worked in the Bureau of Foreign Military Literature at Voenizdat.