# List of female Heroes of the Soviet Union

This is a list of female Heroes of the Soviet Union; of the 12,777 people awarded the title, 95 were women, 49 of whom were posthumous recipients of the title.

## Recipients

This colour, along with the * (asterisk), indicates that the title was awarded posthumously.

### Soviet military personnel

| Name | Unit | Rank | Date of award | Notes |
| Valentina Grizodubova Валентина Гризодубова | Flight "Rodina" | Colonel | 2 November 1938 | Pilot-in-Command |
| Polina Osipenko Полина Осипенко | Flight "Rodina" | Major | 2 November 1938 | Co-pilot |
| Marina Raskova Марина Раскова | Flight "Rodina" | Major | 2 November 1938 | Navigator |
| Yekaterina Zelenko Екатерина Зеленко | 135th Light Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 5 May 1990 * | Killed in action in unclear circumstances on 12 September 1941. |
| Raisa Aronova Раиса Аронова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 15 May 1946 | — |
| Vera Belik Вера Белик | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Lieutenant | 23 February 1945 * | Killed in action on 25 August 1944 after shot down by German fighter. |
| Tatyana Makarova Татьяна Макарова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Lieutenant | 23 February 1945 * | Killed in action on 25 August 1944 after shot down by German fighter. |
| Marina Chechneva Марина Чечнева | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 15 August 1946 | — |
| Rufina Gasheva Руфина Гашева | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 23 February 1945 | — |
| Olga Sanfirova Ольга Санфирова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Captain | 23 February 1945 * | Killed in action on 13 December 1944 after stepping on landmine when evacuating downed aircraft. |
| Polina Gelman Полина Гельман | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 15 May 1946 | — |
| Antonina Khudyakova Антонина Худякова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 15 May 1946 | — |
| Larisa Litvinova Лариса Литвинова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Captain | 23 February 1948 | — |
| Natalya Meklin Наталья Меклин | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 23 February 1945 | — |
| Yevdokiya Nikulina Евдокия Никулина | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 26 October 1944 | — |
| Yevdokiya Nosal Евдокия Носаль | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Junior Lieutenant | 24 May 1943 * | Killed in action on 23 April 1943 when hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire. |
| Zoya Parfyonova Зоя Парфёнова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Yevdokiya Pasko Евдокия Пасько | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 26 October 1944 | — |
| Nadezhda Popova Надежда Попова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Captain | 23 February 1945 | — |
| Nina Raspopova Нина Распопова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 15 May 1946 | — |
| Yevgeniya Rudneva Евгения Руднева | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 26 October 1944 * | Killed in action on 9 April 1944 after plane was shot down from anti-aircraft warfare. |
| Yekaterina Ryabova Екатерина Рябова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 23 February 1945 | — |
| Irina Sebrova Ирина Себрова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 23 February 1945 | — |
| Mariya Smirnova Мария Смирнова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 26 October 1944 | — |
| Maguba Syrtlanova Магуба Сыртланова | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 15 May 1946 | — |
| Nina Ulyanenko Нина Ульяненко | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Lieutenant | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Yevgeniya Zhigulenko Евгения Жигуленко | 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment | Major | 23 February 1945 | — |
| Mariya Dolina Мария Долина | 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment | Major | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Galina Dzhunkovskaya Галина Джунковская | 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment | Major | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Nadezhda Fedutenko Надежда Федутенко | 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment | Major | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Klavdia Fomicheva Клавдия Фомичёва | 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment | Lieutenant Colonel | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Antonina Zubkova Антонина Зубкова | 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment | Captain | 18 August 1945 | — |
| Lydia Litvyak Лидия Литвяк | 73rd Guards Fighter Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 5 May 1990 * | Presumably killed in action on 1 August 1943 after crash; some think she may have survived and been a POW. |
| Tamara Konstantinova Тамара Константинова | 566th Attack Aviation Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 29 June 1945 | — |
| Anna Yegorova Анна Егорова | 805th Ground Attack Air Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 6 May 1965 | — |
| Tatyana Baramzina Татьяна Барамзина | 252nd Rifle Regiment | Corporal | 24 March 1945 * | Captured, tortured, and executed with an anti-tank rifle on 5 July 1944 after running out of ammunition while trying to protect trenches of wounded soldiers. |
| Yelena Stempkovskaya Елена Стемпковская | 216th Rifle Regiment | Junior Sergeant | 15 May 1946 * | Killed in action on 26 June 1942. Some accounts state that she was captured and tortured while others say she was killed in battle. |
| Manshuk Mametova Маншук Маметова | 21st Guards Rifle Division | Senior Sergeant | 1 March 1944 * | Killed in action defending strategic bridgehead on 15 October 1943. |
| Nina Onilova Нина Онилова | 54th Rifle Regiment | Senior Sergeant | 14 May 1965 * | Died of wounds on 8 March 1942 |
| Mariya Batrakova Мария Батракова | 463rd Rifle Regiment | Junior Lieutenant | 19 March 1944 | — |
| Anna Nikandrova Анна Никандрова | 426th Rifle Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 24 March 1945 * | Killed in action while trying to take out machine-gun bunker on 23 June 1944. |
| Tatyana Kostyrina Татьяна Костырина | 691st Rifle Regiment | Junior Sergeant | 16 May 1944 * | Killed in action on 22 November 1942. |
| Natalya Kovshova Наталья Ковшова | 528th Rifle Regiment | Private | 14 February 1943 * | Killed in action after detonating grenades when fully surrounded by German troops on 14 August 1942. |
| Mariya Polivanova Мария Поливанова | 528th Rifle Regiment | Private | 14 February 1943 * | Killed in action after detonating grenades when fully surrounded by German troops on 14 August 1942. |
| Aliya Moldagulova Алия Молдагулова | 54th Independent Rifle Brigade | Corporal | 4 June 1944 * | Died of wounds on 14 January 1944 after shot in hand-to-hand combat |
| Lyudmila Pavlichenko Людмила Павличенко | 25th Rifle Division | Major | 25 October 1943 | — |
| Irina Levchenko Ирина Левченко | 41st Tank Brigade | Lieutenant Colonel | 6 May 1965 | — |
| Mariya Oktyabrskaya Мария Октябрьская | 26th Guards Tank Brigade | Senior Sergeant | 2 August 1944 * | Died of wounds after remaining in coma for two months after head injury on 15 March 1944. |
| Mariya Bayda Мария Байда | 514th Rifle Regiment | Senior Sergeant | 20 June 1942 | — |
| Mariya Borovichenko Мария Боровиченко | 32nd Guards Artillery Regiment | Sergeant | 6 May 1965 * | Killed in action on 4 July 1943 after using body as human shield to protect colleague. |
| Valeriya Gnarovskaya Валерия Гнаровская | 907th Rifle Regiment | Senior Medical NCO | 3 June 1944 * | Killed in action on 23 September 1943 after throwing self under tank with bag of grenades to protect hospital tent. |
| Vera Kashcheyeva Вера Кащеева | 120th Rifle Regiment | Senior Lieutenant | 28 February 1944 | — |
| Kseniya Konstantinova Ксения Константинова | 730th Rifle Regiment | Senior Medical NCO | 4 June 1944 * | Captured, tortured and executed on 1 October 1943 after running out of ammunition while trying to protect injured soldiers. |
| Lyudmila Kravets Людмила Кравец | 63rd Guards Rifle Regiment | Senior Sergeant | 31 May 1945 | — |
| Zinaida Mareseva Зинаида Маресева | 214th Guards Rifle Regiment | Senior Sergeant | 22 February 1944 * | Died of wounds on 6 August 1943 after using body as human shield to defend wounded soldiers from mortar attack. |
| Fedora Pushina Федора Пушина | 520th Rifle Regiment | Lieutenant | 10 January 1944 * | Died of wounds on 6 November 1943 shortly after rescuing numerous soldiers from burning hospital. |
| Zinaida Samsonova Зинаида Самсонова | 667th Rifle Regiment | Senior Sergeant | 3 June 1944 * | Killed in action on 27 January 1944 after shot by German sniper while attempting to rescue wounded soldier. |
| Mariya Shcherbachenko Мария Щербаченко | 835th Rifle Regiment | Senior NCO | 23 October 1943 | — |
| Mariya Shkarletova Мария Шкарлетова | 170th Guards Rifle Regiment | Senior NCO | 24 March 1945 | — |
| Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko Зинаида Туснолобова-Марченко | 849th Rifle Regiment | Senior Medical NCO | 6 December 1957 | — |
| Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina Екатерина Михайлова-Дёмина | 369th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion | Chief Petty Officer | 5 May 1990 | — |
| Galina Petrova Галина Петрова | 386th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion | Chief Petty Officer | 17 November 1943 | Killed in action less than a month later on 4 December 1943. |
| Mariya Tsukanova Мария Цуканова | 355th Independent Guards Naval Infantry Battalion | Corporal | 14 September 1945 * | Killed in action on 14 August 1945. |
| Nina Gnilitskaya Нина Гнилицкая | 383rd Rifle Division | Private | 31 March 1943 * | Killed in action on 10 December 1941. |

### Soviet partisans

| Name | Date of award | Notes |
| Yelizaveta Chaikina Елизавета Чайкина | 6 March 1942 * | Captured and executed on 22 November 1941 |
| Yelena Kolesova Елена Колесова | 21 November 1944 * | Killed in action on 11 September 1942 |
| Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Зоя Космодемьянская | 16 February 1942 * | Captured and executed on 29 November 1941 |
| Tatyana Marinenko Татьяна Мариненко | 8 May 1965 * | Captured and executed on 2 February 1942 |
| Anna Maslovskaya Анна Масловская | 15 May 1944 | — |
| Marytė Melnikaitė Мария Мельникайте | 22 March 1944 * | Captured and executed on 13 July 1943 |
| Antonina Petrova Антонина Петрова | 8 April 1942 * | Killed herself to avoid capture on 4 November 1941 |
| Larisa Ratushnaya Лариса Ратушная | 8 May 1965 * | Murdered by a traitor in her unit on 18 March 1944 |
| Valentina Safronova Валентина Сафронова | 8 May 1965 * | Tortured to death by the Gestapo on 1 May 1943 |
| Helene Kullmann Леэн Кульман | 8 May 1965 * | Captured and executed on 6 March 1943 |
| Anna Lisitsyna Анна Лисицына | 25 September 1943 * | Killed in action on 3 August 1942 |
| Mariya Melentyeva Мария Мелентьева | 25 September 1943 * | Captured and executed in 1943 |
| Anna Morozova Анна Морозова | 8 May 1965 * | Killed in action in December 1944 |
| Anastasiya Biseniek Анастасия Бисениек | 9 May 1965 * | Captured and executed in October 1943 |
| Darya Dyachenko Дарья Дьяченко | 1 July 1958 * | Captured and executed on 2 April 1944 |
| Ulyana Gromova Ульяна Громова | 21 September 1943 * | Captured and executed on 16 January 1943 |
| Lyubov Shevtsova Любовь Шевцова | 21 September 1943 * | Captured and executed on 9 February 1943 |
| Vera Kharuzhaya Вера Хоружая | 17 May 1960 * | Captured and executed on 4 December 1942 |
| Mariya Kislyak Мария Кисляк | 8 May 1965 * | Captured and executed on 18 June 1943 |
| Yelena Mazanik Елена Мазаник | 29 October 1943 | — |
| Mariya Osipova Мария Осипова | 29 October 1943 | — |
| Nadezhda Troyan Надежда Троян | 29 October 1943 | — |
| Klavdiya Nazarova Клавдия Назарова | 20 August 1945 * | Captured and executed on 12 December 1942 |
| Zinaida Portnova Зинаида Портнова | 1 July 1958 * | Captured and executed in January 1944 |
| Nina Sosnina Нина Соснина | 8 May 1965 * | Killed in action on 31 August 1943 |
| Yelena Ubiyvovk Елена Убийвовк | 8 May 1965 * | Captured and executed on 26 May 1942 |
| Nadezhda Volkova Надежда Волкова | 8 May 1965 * | Killed in action on 26 November 1942 |
| Yefrosinya Zenkova Ефросинья Зенькова | 1 July 1958 | — |

### Soviet cosmonauts

| Name | Mission | Date of award | Notes | References |
| Valentina Tereshkova Валентина Терешкова | Vostok 6 | 22 June 1963 | First woman in space | |
| Svetlana Savitskaya Светлана Савицкая | Soyuz T-7 and Soyuz T-12 | 27 August 1982, 29 July 1984 (twice) | First woman to make a spacewalk | |

### Foreign military personnel

| Name | Country | Unit | Rank | Date of award | Notes | References |
| Aniela Krzywoń | Poland | "Emilia Plater" Independent Women's Battalion | Private | 11 November 1943 * | Killed in action on 12 October 1943 | |