She was a member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.

[1] After the Bolshevik revolution broke out in 1917, she and her sister were able to escape from a revolution-ridden Russia with the help of her father's former compatriots and took refuge in Bessarabia, which then became part of the Kingdom of Romania.

The marriage lasted only a few years before they separated and Nadia Russo went to Bucharest to pursue studies in nursing, aviation and fine arts.

As a result of that performance, King Carol II awarded her Order "Aeronautical Virtue" of peace, the Golden Cross class.

[1] With the threat of conflict growing in Europe in 1938, Nadia was invited to join a new, all-female, aviation team which would become known as the White Squadron.