Natalia A. Kostenyuk
March 28, 1912–January 4, 1943 long distance record: Moscow to Komsomolsk total distance - 6,450 km duration - 26 hours and 29 minutes
The 586th Women's Fighter Regiment The 587th Women's Bomber Regiment The 588th Women's Night Bomber Regiment, the famous "Night Witches"
4,419 sorties (per pilot) more than 125 separate air battles 38 confirmed kills
flew 1,134 missions, droped over 980,000 tons of bombs
made 24,000 combat flights dropped 23,000 tons of bombs was awarded the Soviet Union's highest collective military honor.
Tambov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots; 125-th Guards pikirovochno-bombing aviation; Streets in many cities of the former USSR (Vladivostok, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Engels, Saratov, Tyumen, Saransk, Lipetsk, and others); Square in Moscow (CAO); the namesake of an American Liberty ship; ship on the Volga; the Soviet carrier, destroyed a German submarine in the Kara Sea 12 Aug, 1944.