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Valentina Grizodubova was born on 19 April, 0009 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire, is a Soviet aviator (1909–1993). Discover Valentina Grizodubova's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 19 April 0009
Birthday 19 April
Birthplace Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Date of death 28 April, 1993
Died Place Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1909

Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova (Валенти́на Степа́новна Гризоду́бова, Валентина Степанівна Гризодубова Valentyna Stepanivna Hryzodubova; 10 May 1909 in Kharkov – 28 April 1993 in Moscow) was one of the first female pilots in the Soviet Union awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the only female Hero of the Soviet Union to also be awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labour.

Born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), she was the daughter of Stepan Vasilyevich Grizodubov, a pioneer aircraft-designer.

At the age of fourteen, she flew a glider solo.

She played piano and graduated from a conservatory as well as from the Kharkov Technical Institute.

She spoke several foreign languages.

1929

In 1929, she graduated from the Penza Flying Club of the paramilitary association OSOAVIAKhIM.

She also trained at the Kharkov Flight School.

1930

Two months later, on 30 August, the 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and, later, the honorific of "Guards".

1933

In 1933, she graduated from the Tula Advanced Flying School.

Here she became a flight instructor and trained 86 male pilots, many of whom became Heroes of Soviet Union.

1934

From 1934 to 1938, she flew in a "Propaganda" Squadron named after Maxim Gorky.

1937

She flew many types of aircraft and set seven world records including one for highest altitude reached by a female pilot on a two-seater seaplane, 3,267 meters (10718.5 feet) on 15 October 1937, (FAI Record File Number 121.16) three speed records and one for long-distance flying between Moscow and Aktyubinsk together with Marina Raskova.

1938

On September 24–25, 1938, flying as pilot-in-command with Marina Raskova as navigator and Polina Osipenko as co-pilot, she completed the 5,910-kilometer-long flight named Rodina (Russian for "Motherland") on an Tupolev ANT-37, setting an international women's record for a straight-line distance flight (FAI Record File Number 10444).

She had already accumulated 5000 flight hours flight before the historic event; after the flight she and her crew members became the first women awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 2 November 1938, also receiving a reward of 25,000 rubles.

1940

In the 1940s she served as the sole female member of the "Extraordinary State Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating Crimes Perpetrated by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices" (Chrezvychainaia gosudarstvennaia komissiia or Чрезвычайная Государственная Комиссия; ChGK), appointed to investigate Nazi war crimes in the Soviet Union and to compensate the state for damages.

She also assisted the future cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in becoming a test pilot.

Grizodubova was made an Honorary Citizen of Penza.

A statue of her stands in front of Kutuzovsky Prospekt 34 in Moscow.

Streets are named after her in various cities of the former Soviet Union.

1942

Starting in March 1942, she served in the Red Army.

The unit had initially the task of bombing enemy troops, to fly to partisans and – in June 1942 – to help supply the besieged Leningrad.

In September 1942, the 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment was placed at the disposal of the Central HQ of the Partisan Movement.

The unit flew more than 1,850 sorties to partisan-held areas, delivering about 1,500 tons of arms and ammunition and hundreds of tons of radio equipment, printing presses, film cameras, and reading matter for Soviet partisan leaders.

The Regiment also evacuated 2,500 wounded partisans and homeless orphans.

However, poor airstrips and enemy fighters were a constant threat to the Li-2s and their crews.

1943

On Grizodubova's initiative, by March 1943 partisans had built an improved airstrip on the right bank of the Dnieper, where up to a dozen aircraft could be parked in daytime.

1944

On 27 May 1944 her regiment was awarded the honorific title Krasnosel'skiy for participating to break the siege of Leningrad.

By the time Grizodubova was recalled to Moscow, in June 1944, she had flown about 200 sorties.

2010

In May, she was appointed the first commanding officer of the 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment, which consisted of about 300 men: pilots, navigators, engineers and ground support personnel.

Her unit was equipped with Lisunov Li-2 transport aircraft (license-built versions of the Douglas DC-3) with pilots conscripted from the Civil Air Fleet.

Grizodubova's Li-2s had a crew of six aviators: pilot, co-pilot, navigator, flight-technician, radio operator and air gunner.

Subsequently, the 101st Long-Range Bomber Air Regiment was ordered to bomb Wehrmacht units that had broken the Bryansk and South-Western Fronts and were heading for Voronezh.

Grizodubova led her regiment almost every night, overcoming strong flak defences and Luftwaffe night fighters in the Kursk, Orel, and L'gov areas.