Yevdokiya Pasko

Yevdokiya Borisovna Pasko (Russian: Евдокия Борисовна Пасько; 30 December 1919 – 27 January 2017) was a squadron navigator in the Soviet all-female 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II.

Pasko was born in Lipenko village, Jeti-Ögüz District, Semirechye Oblast on 30 December 1919 to family of Ukrainian peasant immigrants; she was the youngest of twelve children.

In October 1941 during her fourth semester at the school, she and some of her classmates volunteered to join the women's aviation group founded by Marina Raskova.

During the war, she flew bombing missions against the Axis in Belarus, Berlin, Crimea, the Caucasus, the Kerch peninsula, Kuban, and Poland, often though extreme weather and heavy anti-aircraft fire.

[4] After the war, Pasko returned to her studies and graduated with a Ph.D. in mathematics and married her colleague Boris Malyshev.