The Russian Girls !

[robin morley]

A couple of more recent ones taken by myself at the Victory day parade last year in Volgograd.

[earlymb]

Heinz Konsalik wrote the (fictional) novel 'Frauenbatallion' about a Russian female sniper unit and the German snipers tasked to deal with them. I found it quite good, despite some unlikely romantic storylines.

[Watchdog]

A couple of more recent ones taken by myself at the Victory day parade last year in Volgograd.

Not quite in the spirit of the thread but a man after my own heart!
I guess the idea is that the enemy just lose interest in fighting and lie down

Mark

[Bill Garvy]

Polina Denisovna Osipenko (Полина Денисовна Осипенко), Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova (Валентина Степановна Гризодубова), & Marina Mikhailovna Raskova (Марина Михайловна Раскова), the three Heroines of "Rodina" (Родина), "Motherland", the Soviet women aviators who flew an Anatov ANT-37 3,617 miles nonstop from Moscow to the Soviet east coast near Japan on September 24th & 25th, 1938. Having run out of fuel, they were forced to land, and spent ten days in the Siberian wilderness until rescued. At the time, they set the world's record for distance flown by women.

[dimmuborgir95]

Not quite in the spirit of the thread but a man after my own heart!
I guess the idea is that the enemy just lose interest in fighting and lie down

Mark

it is the students of the Police Academy, likely future clerks and office workers.
I think they are absolutely safe for the enemy

[Paul D]

Polina Denisovna Osipenko (Полина Денисовна Осипенко), Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova (Валентина Степановна Гризодубова), & Marina Mikhailovna Raskova (Марина Михайловна Раскова), the three Heroines of "Rodina" (Родина), "Motherland", the Soviet women aviators who flew an Anatov ANT-37 3,617 miles nonstop from Moscow to the Soviet east coast near Japan on September 24th & 25th, 1938. Having run out of fuel, they were forced to land, and spent ten days in the Siberian wilderness until rescued. At the time, they set the world's record for distance flown by women.

The founders of Russian Female aviation during the war !

[Bill Garvy]

Uzbekistan SSR People’s Artist, 1932, and People’s Artist of the USSR, 1956, Tamara Artemovna Khanum (Тамара Артемовна Ханум), photo circa 1937, wearing her first of five Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, 1937, 1950, 1951, 1959, & 1967. Also awarded the Order of Lenin, 1976, and the Order Badge of Honor, 1939.

[Bagration]

That's a nice thread, here some photos that I have :

[Bill Garvy]

On a more contemporary note, no discussion of Russian women would be complete without the inclusion of Oksana Chusovitna, who, at 41 years of age, competed in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio.

"Chusovitina's career as an elite gymnast has spanned more than a quarter century. She won the USSR Junior Nationals in 1988 and began competing at the international level in 1989, before many of her current rivals were even born. She is the only female gymnast ever to compete in seven Olympic Games, and is one of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams: the Unified Team in 1992; Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2016; and Germany in 2008 and 2012. Chusovitina has also competed in 10 World Championships, three Asian Games and three Goodwill Games. Chusovitina holds the record for the most individual world championships medals on a single event (nine, on the vault)." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksana_Chusovitina)

[RKKAFan]

"Night witches" Galina Brok-Beltsova (l.) and Nadezhda Popova (m. / r.)