Olga Sanfirova biography

The memorial plaque in Kolomna on the Aeroque club Olga Aleksandrovna-squadron commander of the Guards Taman Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Night Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Suvoversky Order of the Suvorov Night Bomber Aviation of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, the Captain's Guard. Born on April 19 on May 2 in the city of Samara in the family of a worker. She worked at a factory in the city of Kolomna of the Moscow Region and at the same time studied at the Kolomensky aero club.

She worked in the department of sanitary aviation in Moscow, from the year-the pilot-instructor of the training squadron of the West Siberian Civil Aviation Department in the city of Tatarsk, Novosibirsk Region. Member of the CPSU B from the year. She graduated from the Batai Military Aviation School of pilots in the year. In the army since May. She fought as part of GO near -Bombarding Aviation Regiment since February of the year of the Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.

She was a pilot, then commanded the link, deputy commander and squadron commander. The squadron commander of the Guards Guards Night Bombing Air regiment I am a night bomber air division, the 4th Air Army, the 2nd Belorussian front of the guard Captain Sanfirova O. At the same time, up to two infantry plates, 1 warehouse, 2 artillery points, 2 transactions, 5 vehicles, 3 machine-gun points, caused 78 fires of fires.

With the support of the landing units on the Eltigen bridgehead, 25 bags with ammunition and food were dropped. The squadron under her command made combat sorties.

The brave pilot died the death of the brave on the night of December 13: when returning from a combat mission to destroy the enemy’s positions in the area of ​​the village of Domoslav in Poland, the plane was shot down. The pilots jumped out with parachutes in the rear of the enemy and made their way to the close line of the front. However, when crossing the front line, Olga Sanfirova stepped on a mine and died.

Buried in a mass grave in the Belarusian city of Grodno. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 23, for the exemplary execution of the command missions of the command and the manifested courage and heroism in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard, Captain Sanfirova Olga Alexandrovna is posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

She was awarded the orders of Lenin by her name a street in the city of Samara, where a monument to the heroine was erected, as well as in Grodno. The bust of O. Sanfirova is installed in the city of Kolomna, and a memorial plaque on the airborne club building.