Yevgenia Andreevna Shigulenko
Yevgenia Andrejewna Schigulenko ( Russian Евгения Андреевна Жигуленко ; born December 1, 1920 in Krasnodar , † March 2, 1994 in Moscow ) was a Soviet bomber pilot and film director .
Life
During the Second World War , she did military service with the night witches , which consisted of women only , who flew combat missions at night with simple Polikarpow Po-2 biplanes .
Schigulenko flew 968 sorties and was named Hero of the Soviet Union . After the war she stayed with the Air Force. After leaving, she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute for Cinematography and worked as a film director.
She was buried in the Trojekurowo cemetery.
Filmography (selection)
- Director
- 1982: Night Witches in the Sky ( Russian В небе «Ночные ведьмы» , "W nebje Notschnije Wedmy")
- 1984: (Russian Без права на провал , "Bjes prawa na prowal", in German roughly: Without the right to fail)
- actress
- 1984: Bjes prawa na prowal
- script
- 1982: Night Witches in the Sky (W nebje Notschnije Wedmy)
literature
- Irina Vyacheslavovna Rakobolskaja , NF Kravtsova: Нас называли ночными ведьмами. Moscow 2005.
Web links
- Yevgenia Andreevna Schigulenko in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Евгения Жигуленко - командир кубанских ночных "амазонок" Yevgenia Shigulenko - commander of the "night amazons" from the Kuban (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schigulenko, Yevgenia Andreevna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Жигуленко, Евгения Андреевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet bomber pilot and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnodar , Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1994 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |