Vera Bjelik
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Vera Bjelik (born June 12, 1921, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine - died August 25, 1944) was a World War II navigator.
She joined the Red Army in 1941 and became active from May 1942. She died on August 25, 1944, aged 23, on active duty, near Ostrołęka, Poland, having completed 813 bombing missions.
[edit] Monument
A monument in her honour was built in Kerch where a school is named after her.
[edit] Awards and honors
- Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union (February 23, 1945, posthumously)
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the Red Star
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class
