Lidija Ivanovna Shulaikina

Lidija Ivanovna Schulaikina ( Russian Лидия Ивановна Шулайкина * 28. March 1915 in Orekhovo-Zuyevo , Government Moscow , Russian Empire ; † 22. June 1995 in Moscow , Russian Federation ) was a Russian bomber pilot of the Baltic Fleet and the end of the Second World War actively in the war.

Life

After graduating from high school, she went to the Moscow Industrial Technical Center , today's Russian Chemical and Technical University “D. Mendeleev ” and graduated from there. Then she taught metallurgy at the technical center in Orechowo. During this time she made her flight license at the local aero club. In 1935 she and her husband went to the Transcaucasian Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic for the Soviet civil aviation company Aeroflot .

During the German-Soviet War , Schulaikina trained more than 200 flight students from mid-1941. From April 1942 she was obliged to serve in the naval forces of the naval war fleet and in 1944 graduated from the 3rd Naval Aviation School in Besentschuk in the Kuibyshev Oblast, today Oblast Samara . After the death of her husband in 1942 outside Stalingrad , she applied for a transfer to the front. In April 1944, she was assigned to the 7th Guard Attack Regiment of the 9th Attack Division of the Baltic Fleet and flew reconnaissance and patrol flights in a small aircraft. In August of the same year she took a ground-attack aircraft of the type Ilyushin Il-2 and took the only female pilot of their unity in the fighting on the Baltic Sea on the Moon Sound and East Prussia until after Berlin in May 1945 in part. During this time she completed 38 combat missions in support of the Red Army and against the ships with civilians and Wehrmacht units retreating across the Baltic Sea . She ended her military career with the rank of first lieutenant .

Schulaikina received several awards during the World War and also in the 1990s and died in Moscow, where she was also buried. In her hometown of Orechowo-Sujewo a street was named after her and a commemorative plaque was attached to one of the houses on this street.

honors and awards

• 1944 and 1945: each time the Order of the Red Banner .
• 1945 and 1985: each time the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 1st class.
• 1993: Hero of the Russian Federation .

Web links

• Biography (russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ukas Presidenta RF ot October 1, 1993 N 1554  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 30, 2012)