Biography of Evdokia

In April, her father died, and in the spring of the year her mother died. In the year, the brother of the mother, the commissar of the Rifle Regiment, a participant in the civil war, Georgy Trofimovich Sereda, took his niece to educate.

In October, the family of the city of Sereda moved to the village of Grateful, where children were determined to continue their studies in a seven -year school. At school, she studied diligently, actively engaged in pioneering affairs. In the year on the day of the Komsomol decade, it, as a successful and activist in public affairs with a group of other pioneers in a solemn setting, was accepted in the Komsomol.

In the year, she entered the Bata school of pilots, and in the year she successfully completed the training course and received a specialty of a civil aviation pilot. Given its good theoretical knowledge, excellent piloting technique, good organizational abilities, the command of the Baltic School of pilots left Evdokia Davydavu and appointed instructor in training flight business.

The order was handed in the Kremlin Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin. In the year, he became the commander of the aircraft carrier of the air detachment of special application, which was located in the village of Pashkovskaya Krasnodar Territory. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Evdokia Davydovna was an experienced pilot with the experience of commander work. In January, Bershanskaya headed the women's night bomber regiment.

At that time she was 28 years old. From May to August, the regiment acted on the Southern Front and bombed enemy crossings over the rivers Mius, Seversky Donets, Don, armored troops on the roads of the Salsk steppes and in the area of ​​Stavropol. Since August, for numerous exploits, the regiment of February 8 was transformed into 46 Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. The Germans called the women of the regiment “night witches” for the suddenness, swiftness and accuracy of attacks.

On this day he had a big holiday. The country handed the brave warriors the banner glorified in battles. The commander of the regiment Bershanskaya E. For the exemplary execution of combat missions of the command when the 46th Guards Taman Avia regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner from the fascist troops of the city of Theodosia. Analysis of combat flights.

In June-July, the regiment took part in the breakthrough of the enemy’s defense on the Pronya River and the liberation of the cities of Chaus, Mogilev, Shklov, Bykhov, Grodno. In August-December the regiment, the regiment took part in the defeat of the enemy in Poland and the capture of our troops of the cities of Bialystok, Osovets, Ostolnok, Lomzha, Warsaw, Gdynia, Danzig. In March-May, 46 Guards Women's Avia Regiment participated in combat operations of the 2nd Belorussian Front to break through the enemy defense on the river.

Obser and in the final offensive operation in order to capture the enemy capital of Berlin. Under the command of the Bershansk regiment, he made combat departures, threw it on the enemy about tons of Bom. Lieutenant Colonel Bershanskaya E. From a year to year, rural communists elected Evdokia Davydovna secretary of the party organization of the Udelnensky village council of the Ramensky district of the Moscow Region.

Since the year, Evdokia Davydovna has been the permanent chairman of the Council of Veterans-Odelfan 46 Guards Avia regiment. In the years, Bershanskaya E. from a year to a year worked as deputy chairman of the aviation section of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans and was elected a member of the Presidium of the Moscow Section of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans. Since the year, as part of the delegation of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, she visited the German Democratic Republic on the occasion of the flight of victory over Nazi fascism and was awarded a medal there - “Active Warfare against Fascism”.

In the year, by the decision of the Krasnodar City Council of People's Deputies of Evdokia Davydovna Bershanskaya, he was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Krasnodar”. From April, until the last day of her life, Evdokia Davydovna has been active in the Public Commission of the Timiryazevsky district executive committee of the city of Bershanskaya E.

Bershanskaya Evdokia Davydovna awarded: two orders of the Red Banner; the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree; Order of "Personal Sign"; medal “To commemorate the flight from the birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”; medal "For the defense of the Caucasus"; The medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of the GG. Evdokia Davydovna Bershanskaya died on September 16, was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

In April, a bust was installed in front of the school. In the city of Stavropol, a monument was opened near the building of the former pedagogical college, where she studied.