Vera Fedorovna Demina née Mityagina (Russian: Вера Федоровна Демина (Митягина); 1911–1984) was a Soviet airship pilot.

Under the direction of her commander, Mityagina successfully cut free a portion of the canvas and was able to safely land on the ground with an improvised parachute.

At the age of 22, Vera Mityagina, together with Yevgenia Khovrina participated in a propaganda flight of a 900 cubic meter balloon "in order to improve further qualifications and in honor of International Women's Day."

Lenin on the emancipation of women and attracting them at all times of socialist construction and in the management of the state, the Party and the Government have achieved great success on this front.

There are also a number of women in the Moscow Central Port of airships who, through tireless work on themselves, gnawing the granite of science, master the technique of navigation.

[4] The USSR-V1 (also known as the SSSR-V1) was a small non-rigid airship with a volume of 2,200 cubic meters with two 75hp engines, capable of reaching a speed of 95 km/h (or 51 knots).

Mityagina was unable to escape due to injury and was ultimately captured by the Germans and imprisoned at Vladimir-Volynsky concentration camp.

On 30 January 1938, the American newspaper The Baltimore Sun published an article on Mityagina's achievement as first woman to command an airship.

[9] Likewise, the English language propaganda newspaper Moscow News published an article championing Mityagina's achievement as a success for Soviet equality.