page_title: Nadezhda Zhurkina
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Nadezhda Zhurkina / Later life
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Награды Надежды Александровны Журкиной
context_page_description: Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Zhurkina was a radio operator and gunner in the 99th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment during the Second World War and one of only four women to be awarded all three classes of the Order of Glory.
context_section_description: After the end of the war she left the military and worked as the personnel director of a clothing factory in Riga. She led an active social life and was a member of "War Veterans for Peace". After the dissolution of the Soviet Union she moved to Russia and was not able to bring much with her, but did bring all her war photo albums and address book of fellow veterans with her. From then on she lived in a boarding house for veterans of the Second World War in Moscow until she passed away in 2002 at the age of 82.
caption: Zhurkina's medals in a museum
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