Legacy
Her ashes were immured in the Kremlin Wall, beside Polina Osipenko's, on Red Square. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Patriotic War I Class. She soon became the namesake of an American Liberty ship, the SS Marina Raskova, launched in June 1943.
A street was named after her in Moscow and Kazan' respectively, as well as a square in Moscow, some schools and Young Pioneer detachments. There was a bust of her at the "M.M. Raskova"" Higher Air Force School in Tambov, but that school ceased to function in 1997.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)