Brave daughter of nation –night bomber Hiuaz Dospanova

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ANA. September 14. KAZINFORM During the Soviet epoch many thousand sons and daughters of the Kazakh people have become famous for their feats. One of the women who set an example of courage and bravery was Hiuaz Dospanova. Hiuaz was born on May, 15 in 1922 in Atyrau region.

During the Great Patriotic War she flied by a warplane and became famous due to her bravery and courage. She also distinguished herself by activity and industry.

As all young people of her time she adored her native land. As far as the achievements of the Soviet aviation were widely propagated that time this aroused her interest to aviation. A dynamic and bright girl at last fulfilled her life-long dream. In 1940 she leaved school with distinction and received the replacement pilot certificate. She leaved for Moscow to enter Zhukovsky Military Flight Academy. But the first attempt was unsuccessful.

Then she entered the First Medical Institute in Moscow. There the girl from Kazakhstan was also noticed as amidst her counterparts she distinguished by dignity, proud-spirited character and insistence. She studied well, was engaged in gymnastics, took an active part in social life. But her campus life was interrupted by the war. In 1941 she together with her counterparts took part in the works for Moscow defense.

The most part of young people went to the front for protection of their native land against the enemy. Hiuaz also wanted to be rushed up to the front as a nurse or a nurse's aid and knew that famous Marina Raskova regimented a women's air force group. For such brave girl as Hiuaz it was a good opportunity to approve herself. She went to the aircraft group commander and then was accepted to the air force group.

Later she was directed to the military flight school in Saratov. In 1942 having finished special air navigation classes she was rushed up to the front with the first women's air regiment of night bombers. According to the documents her regiment participated in battles of the South Front over North Caucasus, Crimea, Kuban, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany. That time the role of a navigation pilot was especially important as the navigation pilot participated in air battle when the plane was attacked from the air.

Hiuaz made her work as a master. She took part in execution of over 300 important operational tasks during which she was distinguished by her bravery and courage.

For a reason later, Hero of the Soviet Union Marina Chechneva wrote about Hiuaz: "Hiuaz Dospanova always put her plane exactly on the course and flied back with the same accuracy". Her women's air force group received a lot of high governmental awards. At the beginning it was awarded with rank 'Guardian' and then it was named as 'Tamansky'. Later it was awarded with orders of the Red Banner and Suvorov.

As was noted in the documents of that time Hiuaz was injured in one of the air battles and was hospitalized for six moths. For her bravery and courage she was awarded with orders as Red Star, 'For Liberation of Warsaw' and received the rank of senior lieutenant. In 1945 after the Soviet Army took Berlin the State Defense Committee discontinued the women's air force regiment.

That time Hiuaz received disability of II degree and intended to continue her study in the medical institute. But then she was noticed by Secretary of Ural Regional Party Committee Minaidar Salin and she became an academic instructor of the Committee in her native region. Later she was directed to the Party school in Almaty. Thereafter she became a leading worker. That time she held leading positions as, for example, the first secretary of the Lenin Young Communist League Central Committee of Kazakhstan.

Hiuaz Dospanova is 'Khalyk Kakharmany' (Hero of People) who bravely protected her country in the years of war, who worked hard in peace time died on May, 20 in 2008.

 

 

 

 

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