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Nikolay Gavrilovich Shcherbina (1919 – 1952)

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/The Pantheon of military glory/Historic Burials in the Kazanskoye Cemetery/Heroes of The Soviet Union

N.G. Shcherbina was awarded the Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on August 22, 1944. He made 424 assault flights (including 120 night flights) and crashed 11 aircrafts in 51 air fights and destroyed 12 aircrafts on airfields.
N.G. Shcherbina participated in the Great Patriotic War. He died in a fatal flight accident on November 21, 1952.
N.G. Shcherbina was awarded the Red Banner Order, the I and the II Class Patriotic War Orders, the Red Star Order, and medals.
Lieutenant Colonel.
N.G. Shcherbina was buried at the Kazanskoye Cemetery.

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Kazanskoe Cemetery