Raspopova, Nina Maksimovna

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Nina Maksimovna Raspopova
Nina Maksimovna Raspopova
Date of Birth	December 31, 1913
Place of Birth	Magdagachi , Russian Empire (now Magdagachinsky District , Amur Region )
Date of death	July 2, 2009 (95 years old)
Place of death	Mytishchi , Moscow region , Russia
Affiliation	the USSR
Type of army	USSR Air Force
Years of service	1941 - 1945
Rank	senior lieutenant
Part	46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment
Commanded	by air link
Battles / wars	The Great Patriotic War
Retired	Executive Secretary of the Mytishchi District Branch of the Knowledge Society .

Nina Maksimovna Raspopova ( December 31, 1913 - July 2, 2009 ) - is the commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 325th Night Bomber Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front , the Guard Senior Lieutenant . Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1946 ) ^[1] .

Biography

Nina Raspopova was born on December 31, 1913 in the village of Magdagachi, Primorsky Region, which is part of the Amur Governor General (now the district center of the Magdagachinsky District of the Amur Region ) in the family of a simple Russian worker. Russian .

At a reception in honor of war veterans
May 8, 2002, President V.V. Putin congratulates Raspopova on Victory Day

She graduated from the Mining School, flight school in Khabarovsk ^[2] ^[3] and courses for improving command staff at the Central Aero Club in Moscow . She worked as a geologist , flight instructor in flying clubs in the cities of Omsk and Mytishchi, Moscow Region.

In the Red Army since October 1941 . On the fronts of World War II from May 1942 . Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1942 .

The commander of the 46th guards night bomber regiment (325th night bomber air division, 4th air army, 2nd Belorussian front) guards senior lieutenant Raspopova completed 805 sorties by the end of the war, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy in manpower and combat technique.

After the war, the brave pilot was in reserve and then retired. She worked as executive secretary of the Mytishchi district branch of the Knowledge society. She conducted an active social activity. She lived in the city of Mytishchi .

Nina Maksimovna Raspopova died on July 2, 2009 at the 96th year of her life. She was buried at the Volkovsky cemetery in Mytishchi .

On September 9, 2010, a memorial complex dedicated to Nina Raspopova was opened on Veterans Boulevard in Mytishchi.

Awards and titles

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, for the exemplary performance of command missions and courage and heroism in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard, the senior lieutenant Raspopova Nina Maksimovna was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Medal ( No. 9011).
Order of Friendship of Peoples ( April 7, 1994 ) - for merits in the veteran movement and active participation in the patriotic education of youth ^[4] .
Two Orders of the Red Banner ( 1942 , 1944 ).
Three orders of World War I degree (?,?, 1985 ).
Awarded with medals.
Honorary Citizen of Mytishchi District, Moscow Region ( 1997 ).

Literature

Grave at Volkovsky cemetery in Mytishchi

Raspopova Nina Maksimovna // Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - S. 346. - 863 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
Mariinsky E. Above the front line // Heroes: essays on women - Heroes of the Soviet Union / ed. L. F. Toropov; foreword E. Kononenko . - Vol. 2. - M .: Politizdat , 1969 .-- 463 p.
Dudakov A. G. Nina Raspopova: “The Night Witch”. Homeland faithful sons. Essays on the leaders, activists and pupils of OSOAVIAHIM-DOSAAF-ROSTO (DOSAAF). Ed. col .: Anokhin A.I., Dranishnikov V.P., Namestnikov V.N., Stepanov V.V., Fedulov S.V. - M .: Izd. Tactics, 2004 .-- 352 p., Ill .; p. 163-168 ^[5] .

Notes

↑ Raspopova Nina Maksimovna // Aviation encyclopedia in persons / Otv. A.N. Efimov . - Moscow: Bars, 2007 .-- S. 504. - 712 p. - ISBN 978-5-85914-075-6 .
↑ From 1932-1933 studied at the Khabarovsk regional school of civil pilots (SHGP) them. I.S.Unshlikht of the Dalkraysovet of Osoaviahim. She was nearly expelled here. In the first independent flight in Khabarovsk, she was let out by the senior instructor Alexander Svetogorov , a future participant in the rescue of the Chelyuskin residents. See: Dudakov A. G. Nina Raspopova: “The Night Witch”. Homeland faithful sons. Essays on the leaders, activists and pupils of OSOAVIAHIM-DOSAAF-ROSTO (DOSAAF). Ed. col .: Anokhin A.I., Dranishnikov V.P., Namestnikov V.N., Stepanov V.V., Fedulov S.V. - M .: Izd. Tactics, 2004 .-- 352 p., Ill .; p. 163-168. Dudakov A.G. Born in the thirties. Historical references, essays, photo documents / Khabarovsk Aviation Sports Club is 75 years old. - 2nd ed., Ext. and rev. - Khabarovsk: KS ROSTO, 2006 .-- 366 p., Silt.
↑ Pronyakin K. A. Svetogorov's Red Dream: a historical documentary. - Khabarovsk: Publisher Khvorova A. Yu., 2016. - 56 p., Ill. (Series: The History of the Development of Civil Aviation in the Far East), p. 9, 28.
↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 7, 1994 No. 675 “On awarding the Order of Friendship of Peoples of the Veterans of the Russian Association of Heroes”
↑ “- I became a pilot thanks to the experience and attention to me of the senior instructor-pilot Alexander Svetotorov ,” recalled Nina Maksimovna Raspopova, quoted by Anatoly Dudakov. - I was small in stature and barely reached for the control pedals, I had to move almost to the edge of the seat. - Do you get your feet to the pedals? - asked Nina instructor Peter Lebedev. “They get it,” Nina cunningly. She was afraid that due to short stature they might be expelled from training. ... The export program was coming to an end, but something was not right with the flights. And here, as a sin, she calls on to test the piloting technique, to decide on the appropriateness of further training, Alexander Svetogorov. “Now they’ll be expelled,” Nina thought. Thanks to experience, Svetogorov quickly determined the cause of Nina’s mistakes, which lay in the incorrect coordination of movement by the airplane’s controls. Svetogorov showed the correct entry and exit from the U-turn, explaining his actions. And he asked Nina to independently carry out the shown. Nina calmed down and she began to succeed. Svetogorov praised Nina and said: “You see, everything worked out.” After taxiing the plane, Svetogorov conducted a short inter-flight analysis, and suddenly Nina sees Svetogorov loading a bag of sand into the front cabin, which meant that she was being launched into flight. The first independent flight was performed perfectly ... "

Links

Raspopova, Nina Maksimovna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
“Nina Maksimovna Raspopova is one of the heroines of the holiday” - Channel One February 23, 2004, Monday, 10:23 p.m.
“Air Force Veterans Honored in Moscow” - Channel One March 03, 2005, Thursday, 18:43 .
"An Essay on the Pilot Raspopova" - Channel Moscow Region July 6, 2009 .
“Veterans, Children and Parents” - Channel Moscow Region September 10, 2010 .
“The Brave Fairy of War” - Channel Moscow Region September 14, 2010 .
Winged Guard - Image Gallery .
Memorial complex in the city of Mytishchi dedicated to N. M. Raspopova .

[enciklop2007-1] Raspopova Nina Maksimovna // Aviation encyclopedia in persons / Otv. A.N. Efimov . - Moscow: Bars, 2007 .-- S. 504. - 712 p. - ISBN 978-5-85914-075-6 .

[2] From 1932-1933 studied at the Khabarovsk regional school of civil pilots (SHGP) them. I.S.Unshlikht of the Dalkraysovet of Osoaviahim. She was nearly expelled here. In the first independent flight in Khabarovsk, she was let out by the senior instructor Alexander Svetogorov , a future participant in the rescue of the Chelyuskin residents. See: Dudakov A. G. Nina Raspopova: “The Night Witch”. Homeland faithful sons. Essays on the leaders, activists and pupils of OSOAVIAHIM-DOSAAF-ROSTO (DOSAAF). Ed. col .: Anokhin A.I., Dranishnikov V.P., Namestnikov V.N., Stepanov V.V., Fedulov S.V. - M .: Izd. Tactics, 2004 .-- 352 p., Ill .; p. 163-168. Dudakov A.G. Born in the thirties. Historical references, essays, photo documents / Khabarovsk Aviation Sports Club is 75 years old. - 2nd ed., Ext. and rev. - Khabarovsk: KS ROSTO, 2006 .-- 366 p., Silt.

[3] Pronyakin K. A. Svetogorov's Red Dream: a historical documentary. - Khabarovsk: Publisher Khvorova A. Yu., 2016. - 56 p., Ill. (Series: The History of the Development of Civil Aviation in the Far East), p. 9, 28.

[4] Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 7, 1994 No. 675 “On awarding the Order of Friendship of Peoples of the Veterans of the Russian Association of Heroes”

[5] “- I became a pilot thanks to the experience and attention to me of the senior instructor-pilot Alexander Svetotorov ,” recalled Nina Maksimovna Raspopova, quoted by Anatoly Dudakov. - I was small in stature and barely reached for the control pedals, I had to move almost to the edge of the seat. - Do you get your feet to the pedals? - asked Nina instructor Peter Lebedev. “They get it,” Nina cunningly. She was afraid that due to short stature they might be expelled from training. ... The export program was coming to an end, but something was not right with the flights. And here, as a sin, she calls on to test the piloting technique, to decide on the appropriateness of further training, Alexander Svetogorov. “Now they’ll be expelled,” Nina thought. Thanks to experience, Svetogorov quickly determined the cause of Nina’s mistakes, which lay in the incorrect coordination of movement by the airplane’s controls. Svetogorov showed the correct entry and exit from the U-turn, explaining his actions. And he asked Nina to independently carry out the shown. Nina calmed down and she began to succeed. Svetogorov praised Nina and said: “You see, everything worked out.” After taxiing the plane, Svetogorov conducted a short inter-flight analysis, and suddenly Nina sees Svetogorov loading a bag of sand into the front cabin, which meant that she was being launched into flight. The first independent flight was performed perfectly ... "