but the most surprising thing is not even this, but the fact that alexander boyko served in the same crew with her husband ivan their own savings, and then turned to stalin personally for permission to fight together, after all, women in tank troops. they simply did not call on the spouses and sent them to the baltic states, but they met the victory in prague, while ivan was a driver mechanic. but alexandra was the commander of the car, this is the first woman commander of a heavy tank is-2. in history , historian igor kovshov has long been studying the phenomenon of women in war in real combat operations. about 250,000 girls of various professions took part, but the tankers are unique phenomena of the thirty-three women tankers who have been installed to date, 20 were mechanics and drivers of 13x t-34s. it was the most difficult machine to control for shifting forces from 15 to 40 kg. this is not a one-time march time. you do this all the time to the driver mechanics vera orlova was also trained; she took place at the chelyabinsk tank school, and one of the instructors was her future husband, nikolai, the sto