WOMEN TANK DRIVERS

[Joe Andrew]

Thanks, Sasha - that's very helpful.

Regards

Joe


On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:12:32 +0100 "A.Smith" <a.smith at CAVEROCK.NET.NZ> 
wrote:

> 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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