| Raisa Surnachevskaya | |
| Native Name: | Раиса Нефедовна Сурначевская |
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Death Date: | 18 December 2005 (aged 83) |
| Death Place: | Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine |
| Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Branch: | Soviet Air Force |
| Serviceyears: | 1941 — 1945 |
| Unit: | 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment |
| Battles: | Eastern Front of World War II |
Raisa Nefedovna Surnachevskaya (Russian: Раиса Нефедовна Сурначевская; 8 August 1922 18 December 2005) was a Soviet fighter pilot and squadron commander during World War II, as well as one of the very few pregnant women to have flown in combat.[1] After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 she volunteered to join a women's aviation regiment founded by Marina Raskova and underwent training to fly Yakovlev Yak-1 fighters at Engels military Aviation School. She was assigned to the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment for the war; on a mission with Tamara Pamyatnykh she shot down two Junkers Ju 88 bombers while patrolling a railway junction after a formation of 42 bombers approached. After they each shot down two planes and Pamyatnykh attempted to ram a third the formation turned around without dropping their payloads on the railways.[2] [3] [4]