Polina Osipenko

Polina Denissowna Ossipenko (Russian Полина Денисовна Осипенко, scientific transliteration Polina Osipenko Denisovna; born Dudnik; * 25 Septemberjul / October 8 1907greg in Nowospassowka, today Ossypenko in Rajon Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine, .. † May 11, 1939 ) was a Soviet aviator and officer (Major).

Life

In 1932 she completed her pilot training from the aviation school Katschinsk and became a member of the CPSU. She then served in the army as a fighter pilot. On 2 July 1938, she led with Marina Raskowa and Wera Lomako by a world-record distance flight for women over 2416 km on the route Sevastopol -Archangel with a MP-1 flying boat. On 24-25. September 1938, she won in the ANT- 37bis " Rodina " with Valentina and Marina Grisodubowa Raskowa a world record on a straight flight path of 5908.610 km on the route Moscow - Kerbi (not far from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk ). For this flight the three aviators were awarded on 2 November 1938 as the first women in Soviet history the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Ossipenko came along with Colonel Anatoly Konstantinovich Serov in a plane crash. The urns of the two were buried in the necropolis near the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

She is the author of the book " From the Black to the White Sea ".

Honors

• Her birth place was renamed after her death in 1939 Ossipenko ( transcribed from the Ukrainian form of name: Ossypenko ). The village and Rajonverwaltungszentrum Kerbi in Khabarovsk, stop of its world record flight of 1938 was ( " village called Polina Ossipenko " ) renamed Selo imeni Poliny Ossipenko and is called as the surrounding Rajon imeni Poliny Ossipenko to date like this.
• The Soviet post was in March 1939, on the record in the women's long-haul flight and a stamp in honor Ossipenkos out.

Spellings

The Ukrainian form of the name is Polina Denyssiwna Ossypenko ( Поліна Денисівна Осипенко ).