Zuleykha Seyidmammadova
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova Züleyxa Seyidməmmədova | |
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| Born | 22 March 1919 Baku, Azerbaijan DR |
| Died | 10 November 1994 (aged 75) Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service/ |  Soviet Air Force |
| Years of service | 1941–1945 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment |
| Battles/wars | Eastern Front of World War II |
| Awards | Order of Lenin |
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (Azerbaijani: Züleyxa Mirhəbib qızı Seyidməmmədova, Russian: Зулейха Мир-Габиб кызы Сеидмамедова; 22 March 1919 – 1994) was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat.[1]
Seyidmammadova was born in Baku on 22 March 1919.[2] She gained her pilot's license in 1935 at a flying club in her hometown and later at the aviation academy in Zhukovsky near Moscow. In 1938 she became qualified as a petrochemical engineer, but chose to pursue aviation as her main career.[3]
During World War II she was the regimental navigator of the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment, one of the three women's military aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova. Throughout the war, she fought in over 40 aerial battles and carried out over 500 missions.[4] During the war she would inform the commissar as well as Tamara Kazarinova, the commander of her regiment, about the pilots attitudes towards their leadership.[5]
After the war she was demobilized and in 1952 she became the Minister of Social Security of the Azerbaijan SSR. Seyidməmmədova died in Baku in 1994.[6]
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Awards[]
- Order of Lenin
- Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Patriotic War in the 2nd Class
- Order of the Red Star
- Two Orders of the Badge of Honor
See also[]
- Leyla Mammadbeyova – first Azerbaijani woman pilot, but did not fly in combat
- Ziba Ganiyeva – Azerbaijani woman sniper
References[]
- ^ (Russian) The Proprietress of the Sky by I.Gadirova. Nash Vek. 7 May 2004. Retrieved 6 June 2007
- ^ Züleyxa Seyidməmmədova. http://qadin.net/index.php?newsid=254
- ^ Cottam, Kazimiera Janina (1997). Women in air war: the Eastern Front of World War II. Legas. p. 336. ISBN 9780921252627.
- ^ Puchkov, Vladimir. "«Небесные сестры» Востока". Moscow-Baku.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ Vinogradova, Luba (2015). Защищая Родину: лётчицы Великой Отечественной (in Russian). p. 144. ISBN 9785389089600. OCLC 915828679.
- ^ Groot, Gerard J. De; Peniston-Bird, C. (2014). A Soldier and a Woman. Routledge. p. 227. ISBN 9781317876434.
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