Came the first spring holiday. And let the spring climate in most regions of Russia such problems, that it is time to talk about 37th February, instead of 8 th March, but still gratifying, when there is someone present to provide a breath of spring - warm, gentle, warming. This is our favorite women, our other halves - lovely and beloved. Dear, this is your holiday, with which we will most certainly hasten to congratulate!
Due to the nature "Military Review" can hardly be called an information resource, in which the female audience is a large percentage of. But nonetheless, we have real fighting girlfriends, who daily delight the male part of his articles and comments. Feminine look - a look, which is often sobering and makes it possible to look at the issues discussed quite a different angle.
Called in our time women the weaker sex it would be strange. But why only now. Woman - is not only homemakers, although save home, providing comfort - serious work. Women have long equally with men ensure the inviolability of the borders of the Fatherland, he served in the Armed Forces and other Russian law enforcement agencies. Women mined win at a sporting event, that by taking into account modern realities akin to participate in the fighting - against the backdrop of the war, which unleashed against Russia, even in the field of sport and works in semi.
And because the phrase "Women - our heroes" – is not a figure of speech. FROM 1992 , the high rank of the Hero of Russia awarded 17 the fair sex. And in that day will not superfluous to recall their names:
17-summer Marina Plotnikova of the Penza region. Awarded for rescuing three drowning children (posthumously). Marina - the first Hero of Russia among women and the youngest Russian hero among both sexes.
Ekaterina Budanov (1916-1943). propulsion. Lieutenant. The award has found eternal rest 27-year-old Catherine half a century after her death.
Lydia Shulaykina (1915-1995). lieutenant. only woman, served as a pilot-attack aircraft Soviet Naval Aviation.
Alexander Akimov (1922-2012). propulsion. Captain.
21-summer Vera Voloshin (1919 – 1941) - Soviet underground fighter, It executed by the Nazis in the same day, that Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya.
6-time Olympic champion Lyubov Egorova, native of Seversk, Tomsk region. From the decree on awarding: "For outstanding achievements in sports, courage and heroism, displayed at the XVII Olympic Winter Games 1994 of the year".
Yelena Kondakova. Cosmonaut.
Valentina Savitskaya (1917 – 2000). Guard captain. Navigator bomber regiment during the Great Patriotic War. Particularly distinguished during the offensive in East Prussia.
Tatiana Sumarokova (1922 – 1997). LIEUTENANT. Navigator. Participant of the Great Patriotic War.
Leontina Cohen. Soviet scout-illegal. She was born in the US 1913 year (operative alias Helen Kroger).
20-summer Natalia Kachuevskaya (1922 – 1942). Guards Red Army. Sanynstruktor. He saved the lives of dozens of soldiers. died, blew himself up with a grenade, when she was surrounded by the Nazis.
Larissa Lazutina. The renowned Russian skier. Five-time Olympic champion. Two-time winner of the Cup in skiing peace.
Irene Yanina. medical service sergeant. killed in 1999 year near the Dagestani village Karamahi. Covering machine-gun fire wounded loading. When gunmen opened fire on an APC, in which there was Irina and several other servicemen, assisted evacuation of armored vehicles. Itself a burning armored personnel carrier has not had time to leave.
marem Araphanova. a kindergarten teacher in the Chechen Republic. By its actions in September 2002 year helped found a group to break into Chechnya from Georgia militants.
Nina Brusnikina. Milkmaid from the Vologda region. Her actions helped prevent a large-scale fire in the cattle-breeding complex.
Alim Abdenanova (1924-1944). Crimean Tatar. Soviet scout. Work behind the German lines in the Crimea, extracting information about the positions and the supply of German and Romanian units. He was executed after reconnaissance disclosure Nazis.
Elena Serova. Cosmonaut. Now a member of the State Duma.
These women – clear evidence that, that courage and heroism – notion, which is inherent to the fair sex.
We congratulate this day of all Russian women with the holiday and hope, what do you, dear women, You will always remain a source of inspiration and support for men! your “military Review”.
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