Valentina Flegontovna Savitskaya née Kravchenko (Russian: Валентина Флегонтовна Савицкая; 9 January [O.S.

27 December 1916] 1917 – 15 February 2000) was a Russian pilot and squadron navigator in the 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment during World War II.

[1] Kravchenko joined the Red Army in October 1941 several months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

She and her husband lived in Moscow where she worked Space Research Institute in addition to becoming chairman of the veterans council of her wartime regiment.

[3] Several years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union she was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation on 10 April 1995 for her contributions to the war.