Yevgeniya Rudneva is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Yevgeniya Rudneva as Heroine of the Soviet Union and WWII bomber navigator (1920-1944).
Yevgeniya Rudneva was born at Berdiansk in 1920. Her recorded nationality is Soviet Union.
The heroic age of polar exploration pushed men and dogs to the limits of endurance for objectives that were as symbolic as they were geographic.
She is recorded as aircraft pilot, navigator and military personnel.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Order of the Red Banner, Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of the Patriotic War.
Yevgeniya Rudneva died in 1944, aged 24. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Lenin
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Recorded as aircraft pilot, navigator and military personnel
