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Rufina Gasheva was born on 14 October, 1921 in Verkhnechusovsky Gorodky, Permsky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, RSFSR, is an A communist party of the Soviet Union members. Discover Rufina Gasheva'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 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 14 October, 1921
Birthday 14 October
Birthplace Verkhnechusovsky Gorodky, Permsky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, RSFSR
Date of death 1 May, 2012
Died Place Moscow, Russian Federation
Nationality Russia

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1921

Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva (Руфина Сергеевна Гашева; 14 October 1921 – 1 May 2012) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator during World War II who served with the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment and recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Postwar, she continued to serve and was a lecturer in foreign languages at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy before her retirement.

After retiring, Gasheva worked in the Bureau of Foreign Military Literature at Voenizdat.

Gasheva was born on 14 October 1921 in the village of Verkhnechusovsky Gorodky in Permsky Uyezd, part of the Perm Governorate.

1927

She soon moved to the village of Vasilyevo, living there until 1927.

Between 1927 and 1928 she lived in the village of Kasimovo in what is now Permsky District.

1930

Gasheva lived in Perm for the next two years, before moving to Moscow in 1930.

1939

In 1939 she graduated from high school, and by the summer of 1941 she completed two years at the Moscow State University of Mechanics and Mathematics.

1941

Gasheva volunteered for service in September 1941.

1942

She graduated from a navigators' course at the Engels Military Aviation School of Pilots in February 1942.

She fought in combat from May 1942, fighting in the Battle of the Caucasus.

1943

In February 1943 the regiment became the 46th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

Gasheva fought in the Air Battles in the Kuban, the Kerch–Eltigen Operation, the Crimean Offensive, the Mogilev Offensive, the Belostock Offensive, the Osovets Offensive, the Mlawa-Elbing Offensive, the East Pomeranian Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin.

Gasheva's aircraft was shot down twice.

On the first occasion, Gasheva and her pilot reached Soviet lines, but on the second they bailed over minefields and pilot Olga Sanfirova was killed when she stepped on an anti-personnel mine.

During that incident, Gasheva landed on an anti-tank minefield several hundred meters to the South of Sanfirova; after making it back to her regiment she began flying with Nadezhda Popova.

1945

By the end of the war she flew 848 combat missions as a navigator of the Po-2 light bomber; after accumulating 823 sorties by December 1944 she was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union, which she received on 23 February 1945.

Gasheva ended the war as a senior lieutenant.

She married bomber pilot Mikhail Plyats at the front.

Gasheva served with the regiment in the Northern Group of Forces until October 1945.

Postwar, Gasheva and Pliats had a son, Vladimir, and a daughter, Marina.

Pliats reached the rank of colonel.

1952

In 1952 Gasheva graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, becoming a senior lecturer at the Foreign Languages Department of the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy.

1956

She transferred to the reserve in December 1956 with the rank of major.

1957

She worked there until August 1957.

1958

Gasheva was posted to the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Red Air Force, then forming in Engels.

1961

From 1961, she worked as a senior editor in the Voenizdat Bureau of Foreign Military Literature, and between 1967 and 1972 she was a senior editor in the Office for Publication of Military Literature in Foreign Languages of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

2012

She lived in Moscow and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 2000 before she died on 1 May 2012 and was buried in the Vostryakovsky Cemetery.