Yevgeniya Filippovna Prokhorova (Russian: Евгения Филипповна Прохорова; 17 November 1912 – 3 December 1942) was a Soviet aviator who briefly served as the acting commander of the 586th Fighter Regiment before she was killed in action during World War II.
In 1935, she qualified as a flight instructor and by the following year was instructing at the flying club in the Stalin District of Moscow.
[2] In 1940, she established two flight records, one for range and one for altitude in her Rot Front-7 single-place class D glider.
[3] In May 1941, Prokhorova was appointed commander of the Kirov flying club in Moscow and she joined the Academy of the Civil Air Fleet.
Flying in fog, she hit the crest of a hill[1] as she attempted to land on the return mission.