Night Witches - People

People

  • Senior Lieutenant Yevgeniya Rudneva, air navigator

  • Captain Nadezhda Popova, pilot, in 2009

Commanders
  • Yevdokiya Bershanskaya - Regimental Commander
  • Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, Hero of the Soviet Union - Flight Commander
  • Tat'yana Makarova, Hero of the Soviet Union - Flight Commander
  • Nina Ul'yanenko, Hero of the Soviet Union - Flight Navigator
Notable members
  • Nadezhda Popova
  • Natalya Meklin
  • Evgeniya Rudneva
  • Vera Bjelik
  • Irina Sebrova
  • Polina Gelman
  • Rufina Gasheva

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