Zoya Ivanovna Akimova née Parfyonova (Russian: Зоя Ивановна Парфёнова; 21 June 1920 – 7 April 1993) was a senior lieutenant and deputy squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II.

[2] She bombed Germans over Kuban, the Taman peninsula, Sevastopol, Poland and Germany, reaching the vicinity of Berlin.

[3] On 29 January 1945, when performing a supply drop of ammunition for Soviet ground troops, her Polikarpov Po-2 was attacked by a barrage of anti-aircraft fire and shelling, tearing through the fuselage with shrapnel entering the cockpit, seriously injuring her hip and causing major blood loss.

After the incident she received medical care and informed soldiers of the positions of the Axis anti-aircraft equipment.

For doing so she was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 February 1946, which was awarded on 18 August 1945; by the end of the war she had flown 815 missions.