Irina Siebrowa

Irina Fiodorowna Sberbrowa (Russian: Ирина Фёдоровна Сброва, born on December 25, 1914 in the village of Tietiakovka in the Tula Governorate, dated April 5, 2000 in Moscow) - Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). Curriculum vitae Until 1927 she graduated from the 5th grade of school, from 1930 she lived in Moscow, where in 1933 she finished a factory school and later worked in the factory as a locksmith and master of change, while learning in an evening technical school. In 1939 she finished aeroclub in Moscow, and in 1940 a female aviation school, later she worked as a flyer-instructor in the aeroclub, from October 1941 served in the air forces of the USSR, in February 1942 she completed courses at the military school of pilots in Engels. Directed to the female night's airborne bomber regiment, from May 1942 fought on the front as a flyer and commander of the 588 Regiment key / 46 guards night airborne bomber consisting of 325 Bomber Bomb Division of the 4th Air Army in the rank of lieutenant, from May to July 1942 on the Southern Front from July to September 1942 the North-Caucasian Front, from September 1942 to January 1943 in the Northern Group of the Transcaucasus Front Forces, from January to November 1943 again on the North-Caucasian Front, from November 1943 to May 1944 in the Independent Maritime Army, and from June 1944 to May 1945, the 2nd Belorussian Front. She took part in the battle for the Caucasus, the liberation of Kuban, the Kerchno-Eltigene, Crimean, Mohilev, Bialystok, Osowiec, Mława-Elbląg, Pomeranian and Berlin operations. During the war, she made a total of 1,000 combat flights with the Pe-2 aircraft, performing bomb attacks on the living force and enemy technique. After the war, she served in the air forces as a mechanic and aircraft technician and senior technician-constructor of the repair airbase at the Northern Army Group stationed in Poland, in August 1948 she went into the reserve, later worked at the Moscow Air Institute. Honors

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