Evdokia Pasko
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Yevdokiya Borisovna Pasko (russian: Евдокия Борисовна Пасько; 30 December 1919 27 January 2017) was a squadron navigator in the Soviet all-female
46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment "Night Witches" (german: die Nachthexen; russian: Ночные ведьмы, ) was a World War II German nickname for the all-female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviat ...
during World War II. For her successes in the war, she was honored with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 26 October 1944.


Early life

Pasko was born in Lipenko village,
Jeti-Ögüz District Jeti-Ögüz ( ky, Жети-Өгүз , ''seven bulls'') is a Districts of Kyrgyzstan, district of Issyk-Kul Region in north-eastern Kyrgyzstan. Its seat lies at Kyzyl-Suu. Its area is , and its resident population was 93,392 in 2021. It comprises m ...
, Semirechye Oblast on 30 December 1919 to family of
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
peasant immigrants; she was the youngest of twelve children. Having demonstrated a talent for mathematics from a young age, she went on to attend secondary school in Barnaul from 1936 to 1937 before returning to her native village to complete her tenth grade of schooling in 1938. Her family then decided to send her to Moscow to continue her studies, and later that year she was enrolled in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. In October 1941 during her fourth semester at the school she and some of her classmates volunteered to join the women's aviation group founded by Marina Raskova.


Military career

After completing initial training at Engels Military Aviation School in February 1942 she was assigned to the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, with which she was deployed to the warfront in May 1942 initially as a shooter-bombardier. Soon after her arrival on the warfront she was promoted to the position of flight navigator, and eventually she became squadron navigator for squadron No.3, where she was tasked with navigating for squadron commander
Mariya Smirnova Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet A ...
. In February 1943 the regiment received the Guards designation and was renamed as the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. During the war, she flew bombing missions against the Axis in Belarus, Berlin, Crimea, the Caucasus, the Kerch peninsula, Kuban, and Poland, often though extreme weather and heavy anti-aircraft fire. In total, she made approximately 790 sorties on the Polikarpov Po-2 during the war. In addition to her flight duties she helped train seven new navigators in the regiment.


Civilian life

After the war, Pasko returned to her studies and graduated with a Ph.D. in mathematics and married her colleague Boris Malyshev. She taught for over forty years at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. She died on 27 January 2017 in Moscow and was buried at the
Troyekurovskoye Cemetery The Troyekurovo Cemetery (russian: Троекуровское кладбище, Troyekurovskoye kladbishche), alternatively known as ''Novo-Kuntsevo Cemetery'' (russian: Ново-Кунцевское кладбище, Novo-Kuntsevskoye kladbishch ...
.


Awards and honors

* Hero of the Soviet Union (26 October 1944) * Order of Lenin (26 October 1944) * Order of the Red Banner (5 May 1943) * Two
Orders of the Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisan ...
1st Class (30 October 1943 and 11 March 1985) * Order of Friendship of Peoples (27 November 1980) * Two Orders of the Red Star (9 September 1980 and 26 April 1944) * campaign and jubilee medals


See also

* List of female Heroes of the Soviet Union * Yevgeniya Rudneva * Polina Gelman


References


Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasko, Yevdokiya 1919 births 2017 deaths Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Flight navigators Recipients of the Medal of Zhukov Women air force personnel of the Soviet Union Soviet women in World War II