87-year-old Russian lady can drive tanks?

in military •  7 years ago 

Kalina Nadymira Ivanovna is the first female student in Moscow to mechanize and promote military power in Moscow. After the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, she went straight to the front. During World War II, she and her group built more than 3,000 tanks and were awarded the rank of colonel after the war. They won the Red Flag, the Red Star Medal, and the Order of the Patriotic War.
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In 2003, when she was 87 years old in a tank performance test, driving a Mercedes-Benz T70 tanks ten kilometers, it is amazing.

Died in Moscow in 2014 at the age of 98.

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