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Marina Chechneva was born on 15 August, 1922 in Protasovo, Russian SFSR, is a Hero of the Soviet Union. Discover Marina Chechneva'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 62 years old?

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Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 15 August, 1922
Birthday 15 August
Birthplace Protasovo, Russian SFSR
Date of death 1984
Died Place Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1922

Marina Pavlovna Chechneva (Марина Павловна Чечнева; 15 August 1922 – 12 January 1984) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 pilot and squadron commander in the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment (called the "Night Witches" by the Germans) in World War II.

Chechneva was born to a working family on 15 August 1922 in the village of Protasovo in the Maloarkhangelsk District of the Orel Region and spent her first five years in that area of northern Russia.

1934

In 1934 her family moved to Moscow.

At the age of sixteen, Chechneva enrolled in an Osoaviakhim flying club, where she learned sport flying.

She aspired to become a professional pilot, which was encouraged by her father, forbidden by her mother, and supported by Valeria Khomyakova, one of the club's flight instructor pilots who later became a famous fighter pilot.

1939

She became an instructor pilot at the Central Flying Club in Moscow between 1939 and 1941.

1941

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the club evacuated to Stalingrad.

In October 1941 Chechneva was permitted to join the new women's aviation group formed by Marina Raskova.

1942

She joined the Communist Party in 1942.

In 1942 Chechneva was promoted to flight commander and fought hard in the battle for the Caucusus, for which she was awarded an Order of the Red Banner on 27 September 1942.

1943

In late summer 1943, she was promoted to squadron commander and continued carrying out bombing missions as well as training other soldiers.

After participating in campaigns for the Crimean peninsula, Belarus, and East Prussia, she was awarded a second Order of the Red Banner.

Towards the end of the war, she fought over Poland and was in the city of Świnoujście when victory over the Axis was announced; Chechneva briefly remained in Poland after the regiment was disbanded.

During the war.

she made 810 bombing sorties over a span of more than 1000 flight hours, dropped 150 tons of materials, destroyed six warehouses, five river crossings, four anti-aircraft artillery batteries, four searchlights and a train, and trained 40 navigators and pilots for the war.

1945

After the war, in November 1945 Chechneva married fellow pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Davydov.

1946

She received the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 August 1946, after having completed 810 sorties during the war.

Chechneva authored five books about her experiences during the war.

The unit later received the Guards designation and was renamed the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment.

1948

The family moved back to the Soviet Union in 1948, two years after she gave birth to their daughter Valentina in 1946.

1949

In 1949 her husband, who worked for the DOSAAF, was killed in a plane crash while ferrying a plane from Leningrad to Kalinin and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

That same year Chechneva set a speed record on the Yak-18 and was awarded the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR.

Later she became a certified pilot on Yak-3, Yak-9, Yak-11, and Yak-18T aircraft, and led a female air sports team that flew at parades.

1956

She had to stop flying in 1956 for health reasons.

1958

After undergoing further training at Engels military aviation school she was delegated to the 588th Night Bomber Regiment as a Po-2 pilot.

1963

In 1963 she graduated from the CPSU Central Committee Higher Party School.

Later she was a member of several committees, including the Presidium of the Central Committee of the DOSAAF, Presidium of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, and the Committee of Soviet Women, and served as the deputy chairman of the Central Board of the Soviet-Bulgarian Friendship Society.

She later wrote several books and memoirs about her experiences in the Second World War.

1984

She died in Moscow on 21 January 1984 and was buried in the Kuntsevo Cemetery.

Her obituary was published in the Soviet military newspaper Red Star.

There are streets bearing her name in Orel and Kacha.