Nina Zakharovna Ulyanenko (Russian: Нина Захаровна Ульяненко; 17 December 1923 – 31 August 2005) was a navigator, pilot and flight commander in the women's 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II, after which she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 18 August 1945.

Ulyanenko was born on 17 December 1923 to a working-class Russian family in Votkinsk, Sarapul district, in what is now the capital of Udmurtiya.

[1][2][3] Due to the recent German invasion of the Soviet Union, Ulyanenko voluntarily enlisted in the military in January 1942 to join the women's aviation group founded by Marina Raskova.

In 1946 she moved to the city of Kursk with her husband Nikolai Minakov, where she worked for two years as a writer for the newspaper Kurskaya Pravda.

From 1957 on she worked as a teacher and as an instructor at a local DOSAAF flying club after graduating from Udmurt State University in 1955.