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This is a list of female Heroes of the Soviet Union; of the 12,777 people awarded the title, 95 were women, 49 of whom were posthumous recipients of the title.
1. Valentina Grizodubova. Y. Brodsky, Olga Ignatovich/МАММ/МDF/russiainphoto.ru. Valentina Grizodubova was the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet...
Sputnik. With 12 air victories, fighter pilot Lidya Litvyak was the best female hotshot not only of WWII, but of all times. She was killed in action on August 1, 1943, when she was only 21....
La cosmonauta Svetlana Savítskaya fue la única mujer en recibir dos veces la Estrella de Oro de Héroe de la Unión Soviética. El título de Héroe de la Unión Soviética era el máximo galardón al que un ciudadano soviético o extranjero, tanto civiles como militares, 1 2 podía aspirar.
Valentina Grizodubova, a female pilot, was the first woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union (2 November 1938) for her international women's record for a straight-line distance flight. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a Soviet partisan, was the first woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II (February 16, 1942 ...
Kosmodemyanskaya was the first woman to become Hero of the Soviet Union during the war (February 16, 1942). The youngest woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union was also a resistance fighter, Zinaida Portnova. In January 1944, she was captured.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became the first female recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union gold star medal for her actions in World War II. Mountains and stars were named in her honor, while...
