Vera Lukianovna Belik (Russian: Вера Лукьяновна Белик, Ukrainian: Віра Лук'янівна Білик; 12 June 1921 – 25 August 1944) was a flight navigator and lieutenant in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who frequently flew with pilot Tatyana Makarova.
She died when her Po-2 was shot down by a German fighter after completing a bombing mission; she was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945.
For most of her childhood she lived in Kerch, Crimea where she graduated from secondary school in 1939 before she enrolled at the Karl Liebknecht Pedagogical Institute in Moscow, where she studied mathematics.
[5] On 1 August 1944, she and Makarova flew the first bombing mission over East Prussia, becoming the first aircrew of the regiment to fight over German soil.
[6] On the night of 25 August 1944 on her 813th sortie, the plane Belik and Makarova were flying was attacked by a German fighter over Ostrołęka, Poland, killing both of them after it caught fire and crashed.