Postwar, she continued to serve and was a lecturer in foreign languages at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy before her retirement.

Gasheva was born on 14 October 1921 in the village of Verkhnechusovsky Gorodky in Permsky Uyezd, part of the Perm Governorate.

Gasheva was posted to the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Red Air Force, then forming in Engels.

During that incident, Gasheva landed on an anti-tank minefield several hundred meters to the South of Sanfirova;[2] after making it back to her regiment she began flying with Nadezhda Popova.

[3] By the end of the war she flew 848 combat missions as a navigator of the Po-2 light bomber; after accumulating 823 sorties by December 1944 she was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union, which she received on 23 February 1945.