Galina Brok-Beltsova

Galina Pavlovna Brok-Beltsova (Russian: Галина Павловна Брок-Бельцова; 12 February 1925 – 15 August 2024) was a Soviet bomber navigator and the last surviving member of the women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova.

[3] Along with hundreds of other volunteers who were accepted into the women's aviation group founded by Raskova, she was evacuated east to Samara, where they lived in primitive conditions and underwent further flight training.

[4] On 23 June 1944, by then a member of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, she flew her first combat mission in the Belarusian campaign.

[3][4] Brok-Beltsova was often honored at annual events commemorating Russia's role in World War II.

In 2020 she was invited to a brunch with Russian president Vladimir Putin to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the war's end.