In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovna and the family name is Nesterenko.
Mariya Nesterenko
Birth name
Mariya Petrivna Nesterenko
Born
August 1910 Budy, Russian Empire (presently located within the Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine)
Died
28 October 1941 (aged 31) Kuibyshev, Russian SFSR, USSR
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Service/branch
Soviet Air Force
Years of service
1933–1941
Rank
Major
Awards
Order of the Red Star Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Spouse(s)
Pavel Rychagov
Other work
CPSU (1931–1941)
Mariya Petrivna Nesterenko (Ukrainian: Марія Петрівна Нестеренко; 1910 – 28 October 1941) was a Soviet pilot who rose to the rank of major in the Air Force and became a deputy regimental commander before she was executed for being the wife of Hero of the Soviet Union Pavel Rychagov, a victim of one of NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's purges of the air force. She, her husband, and the other victims were posthumously rehabilitated after Stalin died.[1][2]
^Braithwaite, Rodric (2010). Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War. Profile Books. p. 258. ISBN 9781847650627.
^Parrish, Michael (1996). The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 72. ISBN 9780275951139.
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Soviet Union
Soviet Air Force