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Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army.
But in the Soviet Union women fought also in front line roles. Over 800,000 women served in the Soviet armed forces in World War II, mostly as medics and nurses, which is over 3 percent of total personnel; nearly 200,000 of them were decorated. 89 of them eventually received the Soviet Union’s highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union, they ...
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...
[13] Yevdokiya Nosal Евдокия Носаль 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment: Junior Lieutenant 24 May 1943 *: Killed in action on 23 April 1943 when hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire.
Russian women in World War II (33 P) Pages in category "Soviet women in World War II" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
These women were members of the Red Army traffic control units. [4] [5] Photographic evidence from the time shows Soviet traffic police women directing traffic at significant locations such as the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, [6] highlighting their active role in managing traffic during the war. They used signal flags and other means to regulate ...
Decades after the end of the Cold War, scholars still find substantial differences in professional success between women in capitalist and former socialist countries. What the US can learn from ...
Flying for Her Country: the American and Soviet women military pilots of World War II. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99434-1. Cottam, Kazimiera J. (1998). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Focus Publishing/R.Pullins Co. ISBN 1-58510-160-5. Jackson, Robert (2003). Air aces of World War II ...