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Legendarnyĭ 46-ĭ gvardeĭskiĭ Tamanskiĭ polk - odin iz trekh zhenskikh aviat͡sionnykh polkov, sformirovannykh v nachale Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭny. V nem sluzhili tolʹko zhenshchiny - ot komandira polka do tekhnika. Bolʹsheĭ chastʹi͡u ėto byli sovsem molodye devushki, vcherashnie shkolʹnit͡sy i studentki. Nemt͡sy nazyvali ikh "nochnymi vedʹmami", russkie soldaty - "lastochkami", marshal Rokossovskiĭ - "legendami". Za gody voĭny devushki sdelali 24 tysi͡achi boevykh vyletov: bombili nemt͡sev na Donu, v Stavropolʹe, na Kavkaze, na Kubani, v Belorussii, Polʹshe, Vostochnoĭ Prussii. 25 letchit͡s i shturmanov poluchili zvanie Geroi͡a. Ob ikh podvigakh rasskazyvai͡ut Irina Rakobolʹskai͡a, nachalʹnik shtaba polka, i Geroĭ Sovetskogo Soi͡uza Natalʹi͡a Kravt͡sova (Meklin), komandir zvena, sbrosivshego na vraga 147 tonn bomb. V nastoi͡ashchee izdanie vkli͡ucheny takzhe dokumentalʹnye povesti Natalʹi Kravt͡sovoĭ o drugikh izvestnykh letchit͡sakh: Ekaterine Budanovoĭ, Lidii Litvi͡ak i Olʹge I͡Amshchikovoĭ.

The legendary 46th Guards Taman Regiment is one of three women's aviation regiments formed at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Only women served in it, from the regimental commander to the technician. Most of them were very young girls, yesterday's schoolgirls and students. The Germans called them "night witches", the Russian soldiers — "swallows", Marshal Rokossovsky — "legends". During the war, the girls made 24,000 combat sorties: they bombed the Germans on the Don, in Stavropol, in the Caucasus, in the Kuban, in Belarus, Poland, and East Prussia. 25 pilots and navigators received the title of Hero. Irina Rakobolskaya, chief of staff of the regiment, and Natalia Kravtsova (Meklin), Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the flight that dropped 147 tons of bombs on the enemy, tell about their exploits. This edition also includes Natalia Kravtsova's documentary stories about other famous pilots.: Ekaterina Budanova, Lidiya Litvyak and Olga Yamshchikova.