Nikulina, Jevdokija Andrejevna

Nikulina, Yevdokiya Andreyevna
Евдокия Андреевна Никулина
Gv. major Nikulina, Yevdokiye Andreyevna

* 08.11.1917
+ 23.03.1993


Heroine of the Soviet Union

Born on 8 November 1917 in Kaluga region in the family of a peasant. She graduated from the aviation industrial school in Balashov. Prior to the war, she served as a pilot in the civil transport air force in Smolensk.

She volunteered for the Red Army in June 1941 and immediately joined a bomber regiment. Commander of the 3rd Squadron of 46. GvNBAP guardsman Captain Nikulin made 600 combat sorties. She was awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of the USSR on October 26, 1944.

After the war, she transferred to the Reserves at the rank of gv. major. In 1954 she finished her studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Rostov-on-Don.

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