Photo of Red Army Air Force pilot E.A. Nikulina, Hero of the Soviet Union

The original photo is in good collector's condition. The size is 88*130 mm. Paper tearing on the right. The TASS newsreel. There are traces of pasting into the album on the back. Guarantee of authenticity.

Evdokia Andreevna Nikulina (November 8, 1917, Spas-Demensky district — March 23, 1993, Rostov-on-Don) was a squadron commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (325th Night Bomber Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army, 2nd Belorussian Front), Guards Major, Hero of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union (1944). She was born on November 8, 1917 in the village of Parfenovo (now in the Spas-Demensky district of the Kaluga region) in a peasant family. Russian. She graduated from an aviation college and an aviation school in the city of Balashov. She worked as a pilot in the aviation detachment of the Civil Air Fleet of the city of Smolensk. In the Red Army since 1941. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. Member of the CPSU since 1942. She participated in the defense of the Caucasus, in the Crimean offensive operation, for which she received the second Order of the Red Banner. The squadron commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (325th Night Bomber Aviation Division, 4th Air Army, 2nd Belorussian Front) of the Guards, Major E. A. Nikulina, had flown 600 combat missions by September 1944 to bomb fortifications, crossings and enemy troops, causing great damage. After the war, Guard Major E. A. Nikulina was in reserve and then retired. She graduated from the Rostov Party School in 1948 and the Pedagogical Institute in 1954. She worked in the city committee of the party. She lived in Rostov-on-Don, where she died on March 23, 1993.