and an additional 530 sorties as pilot in command of a Polikarpov Po-2; by the end of the war she had flown 905 sorties, dropping 120 tonnes of bombs, damaging ten vehicles, four ferries, and forcing four artillery batteries to retreat. For her service in the war, she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 18 August 1945. Later life After leaving the military at the end of the war Ulyanenko entered the Military Institute of Foreign Languages of Moscow in November 1945. In 1946 she moved to the city of Kursk with her husband Nikolai Minakov, where she worked for two years as a writer for the newspaper Kurskaya Pravda. In 1948 she moved to the city of Izhevsk in Udmurtia where she worked as an editor for the newspaper Udmurt Pravda. Between 1947 and 1951 she was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. From 1957 on she worked as a teacher and as an instructor at a local DOSAAF flying club after graduating from Udmurt State University in 1955. She died on 31 August 2005 and was buried in the Khokhryakovskoye cemetery. Awards and honors Hero of the Soviet Union (18 August 1945) Order of Lenin (18 August 1945) Two Orders of the Red Banner (17 June 1943 and 15 June 1945) Order of the Patriotic War 1st class and 2nd class (11 March 1985 and 29 February 1944) Order of the Red Star (29 December 1942) campaign and jubilee medals See also List of female Heroes of the Soviet Union References Bibliography 1923 births 2005 deaths Russian aviators Russian women aviators Night Witches aviators Flight navigators Women air force personnel of the Soviet Union Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Lenin Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Russian women in World War II Soviet women in World War II Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1947–1951