Nadia Russo
Nadia Russo , born Nadezhda Evgenevna Brjosowskaja , (June * 4 . Jul / 17th June 1901 . Greg in Tver ; † 22. January 1988 in Bucharest ) was a Russian - Romanian pilot .
Life
Nadeschda Brjosowskajas father was the cavalry general Yevgeny Vasilyevich Brjosowski (1857-1915). Her mother from a Russian aristocratic family , whose ancestors included Tsar Boris Godunov , died in 1912. Nadezhda Brjosowskaja attended the Lyceum in Charkow until her father's death in 1915. After the October Revolution , she and her sister were able to flee to Bessarabia in 1918 with the help of her father's former orderly officers , which had now become part of Greater Romania . In 1925 she married in Chisinau , where her relatives lived, the much older wealthy aristocratic landowner Alexander Russo.
1932–1934 Nadia Russo completed courses from the Red Cross in Chisinau to train as a nurse. She also attended art school. She then separated from her husband and went to Bucharest, where she trained as the first female pilot in Romania from 1935 to 1936 in the flight school of the engineer Mircea Cantacuzino. In 1937 she bought a Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann , half of the purchase price was taken over by the Romanian Ministry of Aviation , while she financed the other half through a public tender. In June 1938 in the competition for the Mircea Cantacuzino Cup, she finished 7th. In September of the same year, she took part in the "Little Entente" flying competition. Shortly afterwards, at the inauguration of the monument to Aurel Vlaicu in Băneşti near Câmpina , she spread flowers from her Jungmann over the obelisk .
In 1940 Bessarabia was occupied by the USSR during World War II . In the same year Russo entered the Escadrille Alba , which had been christened by the war correspondent Curzio Malaparte , and trained pilots. Together with Mariana Drăgescu , she transferred two training aircraft from Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm from Böblingen to Bucharest. After the start of the German-Soviet war , she flew on the Eastern Front and transported wounded men from the fronts near Odessa and Stalingrad to the hospitals in Tighina and Bucharest. Your Jungmann bought the Transnistrian governorate in 1942 . In 1943 Russo retired for health reasons.
Russo was arrested in the People's Republic of Romania in 1951 and sentenced to seven years in prison in connection with the trial of Air Force officers who had contact with British officers of the Allied Control Commission, of which she then only served five years. In 1961 she married Gheorghe (Guy) Bossie.
In Chisinau, the former Raskowa Street bears Russo's name.
Honors
- Gold Cross of the Aviator Valor Order of Peace (1939)
- Gold Cross of the Aviator Valor Order with Swords (1941)
- Order of Merit from the German Eagle III. Class (1942)
- Queen Mary Cross III. Class (1943)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c ФИЛАТЕЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ КАТАЛОГ: ЛЕТЧИКИ: НАДЕЖДА РУССО (accessed February 17, 2020).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Daniel Focșa: Escadrila Albă. O istorie subiectivă . Vremea, Bucharest 2008, p. 68–71 ( [1] [PDF; accessed February 17, 2020]).
- ↑ a b Turturică, Sorin: Aviatoarele României - Din înaltul cerului în beciurile Securității . Editura Militară, Bucharest 2013, ISBN 978-973-32-0919-5 , p. 163 .
- ↑ Aviația română pe frontul de Est și în apărarea teritoriului . Editura Tehnoprod, Bucharest 1993.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Russo, Nadia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Руссо, Надежда (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tver |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1988 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |