Marina Raskova Brief biography

Raskova Marina Mikhailovna. From a family of teachers. In the year she graduated from a nine school in Moscow. In years, she studied at the correspondence faculty of the Leningrad Aviation Educational Plant with a degree in Aeronavigation. In the year - the navigator of the Black Sea Airographic Expedition. From a year after the graduation of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Air Fleet engineers, she worked at the N.

Zhukovsky Air Academy of Academy as a teacher and at the same time mastered the navigator specialty, having graduated from the year of the pilot at the central airplane in Tushino. In the year, as a navigator, she participated in the establishment of a global aviation record for a range of AIR; In the year-in the establishment of 2 global aviation records of range on the seaplane of MP Grizodubov, the second pilot-P.

Osipenko made a non-stop flight of Moscow-False East Kerby with the length of KM. During a forced landing in the taiga, she jumped out with a parachute and was found only after 10 days. During the flight, a female world aviation record of flight range was set. Until recently, it was little-known that by the time M., by the time of transition to the People’s Commissariat of the Interior, Marina Mikhailovna worked as an instructor in the air navigation laboratory of the Air Force Academy.

On the basis of the Academy, development was carried out in the field of aircraft construction, improvement of weapons, tactics of the use of aviation, its interaction with other types of troops. There is no doubt that attention from foreign exploration was focused on this educational and scientific center. On the path of intelligence aspirations of the enemy, it was necessary to put a reliable barrier to prevent leakage of important defense secrets abroad.

To solve these problems, Marina Raskova made an offer to go to work to the security authorities. In G. by that time, she had already had extensive experience in counterintelligence work. Raskov quickly got used to in a new position, established itself "promptly competent, well mastered the methods of professional work as an officer." This was also facilitated by its positive qualities "initiative, resourcefulness and exactingness." With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, remaining in the personnel of military counterintelligence, Marina Mikhailovna began to organize female aviation regiments, in October of the year she achieved the relevant resolution of the State Defense Committee of the USSR.

Since the year, she, the commander of the women's bomber aviation regiment on Pen, sent two squadrons to the front near Stalingrad. Major Raskova M. Her ashes was buried in Moscow on Red Square in the Kremlin wall.

In May, for successful hostilities on the Don and North Caucasus fronts, the mu bomber aviation regiment was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Marina Raskova, and in September the regiment was renamed the Guards Bombing Aviation Regiment named after Hero of the Soviet Union Marina Raskova. During the war, the pilots of the regiment made combat departments, dropping tons of bombs on the enemy.

M. Raskova is the name of the Tambov Higher Military Aviation School of pilots in which its bust is installed. The name M. Council of the organization of veterans tel.