WOMEN TANK DRIVERS

[A.Smith]

Dear Joe,

See a few articles in Russian elated to this topic:
1. there is a photograph of a 90=year old woman from samara who was  a tank
driver during the WW2:

http://titov.samara.ru/news/01.05.2004/6216/

2. the more recent article about her contains an interview with her. It says
that Aleksandra Mitrofanovna Rashchupkina was a tank-driver during the war
but for 3 years she had to pretend to be a man (she is a former tractor
driver from Uzbekistan):
http://news.e63.ru/2366.html

3. a very informative article titled "Women-Tank Drivers" is located at this
site: 
http://www.volkey.ru/admin/print.php?subaction=showfull&id=1140824280&archiv
e=&start_from=&ucat=1&

4. Another source describes a woman-tank driver Kalinina (it has 2 photos of
hers); 
http://sammler.ru/index.php?s=cd3328bdd912ae29d3ba043bb28342bb&showtopic=337
9

It seems that this topic is well covered on YANDEX.RU. I hope your former
student's computer has the right fonts and is able to read all the articles
in Russian...

All best,
Sasha Smith


Alexandra Smith  (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield

Alexandra.Smith at sheffield.ac.uk

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