{"id":47034,"date":"2024-12-18T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=47034"},"modified":"2024-12-18T01:52:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T00:52:47","slug":"khiuaz-qayrqyzy-dospanova-kazakh-heroine-of-soviet-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/khiuaz-qayrqyzy-dospanova-kazakh-heroine-of-soviet-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Khiuaz Qayrqyzy Dospanova, Kazakh heroine of Soviet aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A monumental fresco depicting<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khiuaz_Dospanova\">Khiuaz Qayrqyzy Dospanova<\/a><\/strong>, a heroine of Soviet aviation, on a building in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aktau#:~:text=Aktau%20(%2F%CB%8C%C9%91%CB%90k%CB%88,cliffs%20that%20overlook%20the%20Caspian.\"><strong>Aktau<\/strong><\/a>, Kazakhstan, celebrating her courage as the first Kazakh woman pilot of the &#8220;Night Witches&#8221; during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Night_Witches\"><strong>Night Witches<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; were Soviet aviators of the 588th Regiment, known for their daring night missions during World War II. They used light and rudimentary aircraft to harass enemy troops with deadly precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credit: Elise Paqueteau <\/strong>(France)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ac00cf961d1ea846fe5a532228b76c6\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monumental fresco depicting Khiuaz Qayrqyzy Dospanova, a heroine of Soviet aviation, on a building in Aktau, Kazakhstan, celebrating her courage as the first Kazakh woman pilot of the &#8220;Night Witches&#8221; during World War II. The &#8220;Night Witches&#8221; were Soviet aviators of the 588th Regiment, known for their daring night missions during World War II. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":47035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2895,1688,470,4769,4238],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-47034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-aktau","tag-aviation","tag-kazakhstan","tag-picture-of-the-day","tag-soviet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47040,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47034\/revisions\/47040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}