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Key facts
- Native name
- Поліна Денисівна Осипенко
- Born
- 8 October 1907, Novospasovka , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 11 May 1939 (aged 31), Vysokoye, Rybnovsky District , Ryazan Oblast , Russian SFSR , USSR
- Allegiance
- Soviet Union
- Branch
- Soviet Air Force
- Service years
- 1933–1939
- Rank
- Major
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Spouse
- Alexander Osipenko
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Osypenko
- Place of death
- Rybnovsky District
- Occupation
- navigator
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Participant in
- 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party
- Military branch
- Soviet Air Forces
- Military rank
- Major
- Image
- Pilot Polina Osipenko.jpg
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- Commons category
- Polina Osipenko
- date of birth
- 1907-09-25
- date of death
- 1939-05-11
- place of burial
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Поліна Денисівна Осипенко
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Encyclopedic overview
Polina Denisovna Osipenko (Russian: Полина Денисовна Осипенко, Ukrainian: Поліна Денисівна Осипенко, romanized: Polina Denysivna Osypenko; 8 October 1907 – 11 May 1939) was a Soviet military pilot who, with Valentina Grizodubova and Marina Raskova on 24–25 September 1938, performed a nonstop flight between Moscow and the Sea of Okhotsk, setting a new women's nonstop flight distance record. For this, they were the first three women made Heroes of the Soviet Union on 2 November 1938.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polina Osipenko” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.