Polina Denisovna Ossipenko
Polina Osipenko ( Russian Полина Денисовна Осипенко , scientific. Transliteration Polina Osipenko Denisovna ; born Dudnik; born September 25 . Jul / 8. October 1907 greg. In Nowospassowka today Ossypenko in Raion Berdyansk , Zaporizhia Oblast , Ukraine ; † May 11 1939 ) was a Soviet aviator and officer (major).
Life
In 1932 she completed her pilot training at the Katschinsk Aviation School and became a member of the CPSU . She then served in the army as a fighter pilot . On July 2, 1938, with Marina Raskowa and Wera Lomako , she carried out a world record long-distance flight for women over 2,416 km on the Sevastopol - Arkhangelsk route with an MP-1 flying boat . On 24./25. September 1938 she achieved a world record in the ANT-37bis "Rodina" together with Valentina Grisodubowa and Marina Raskowa on a straight flight distance of 5908.610 km on the route Moscow-Kerbi (not far from the Sea of Okhotsk ). For this flight, on November 2, 1938, the three female pilots became the first women in Soviet history to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union .
Ossipenko was killed in a plane crash together with brigade commander Anatoly Serov . The urns of the two were buried in the necropolis on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
She is the author of the book "From the Black to the White Sea".
Honors
- Her birthplace was renamed Ossipenko after her death in 1939 (transcribed from the Ukrainian form of the name: Ossypenko ). The village and administrative center of Kerbi district in the Khabarovsk region , the end point of their world record flight in 1938, was renamed Selo imeni Poliny Ossipenko ("village called Polina Ossipenko") and, like the surrounding district imeni Poliny Ossipenko, is still called that today.
- In March 1939, the Soviet Post issued a stamp in honor of Ossipenko on the occasion of the record in women's long-haul flights.
Spellings
The Ukrainian form of the name is Polina Denyssiwna Ossypenko ( Поліна Денисівна Осипенко ).
Web links
- Article Polina Denissovna Ossipenko in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Osipenko, Polina Denisovna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novospassovka, today Berdyansk |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1939 |