Background
Tatyana Makarova was born on September 25, 1920, in Moscow, Russia. She was the second daughter of an impoverished and disabled First World War veteran and an illiterate mother.
6th Radial Street, 10, Moscow, Russian Federation
In 1939 Tatyana Makarova finished Moscow Mechanics and Technology College of Food Industry.
Tatyana Makarova was born on September 25, 1920, in Moscow, Russia. She was the second daughter of an impoverished and disabled First World War veteran and an illiterate mother.
Tatyana Makarova graduated from the 7th grade of secondary school № 12 in Moscow.
After completing basic training at a local aeroclub she tried to enter a military academy but was rejected because women were not allowed to attend.
In 1939 she finished the Moscow Mechanics and Technology College of Food Industry (now Moscow Food College №33).
Tatyana graduated from courses at the Engels Military School of Aviation in 1942.
In early October 1941, Makarova volunteered to join and was accepted in the women's aviation unit by Marina Raskova. She was deployed to the war front in May 1942 as a flight commander in the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, which was later honored with the Guards designation and renamed to the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment. That same year she was sent to the Eastern Front.
Tatyana Makarova landed her plane after it was targeted by a barrage of anti-aircraft warfare and searchlights. After losing control temporarily she distracted German forces by releasing another bomb, providing enough time to leave the area and land. She participated in bombing campaigns against German forces in the North Caucasus, Crimea, Kuban, Taman peninsula, Belarus and East Prussia.
She was promoted to the position of squadron commander in 1943 after the regiment decided to add the third squadron but after eight members of her squadron were shot down over the Kuban in one night she blamed herself and requested to be demoted back to flight commander.
Makarova and Belik died on 25 August 1944 when they were attacked by a German fighter near their home airfield in Poland. Their wood and canvas airplane caught fire, and like most Po-2 crews, they carried no parachutes; the aircraft went down in flames.
In 1942 Tatyana Makarova became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Tatyana was not married and didn't have children.