Order-bearers captain polina osipenko (co-pilot and commander of the plane), deputy to the supreme soviet of the ussr valentina grizodubova (navigator), and senior lieutenant marina raskova right before their historic flight, they set a world record for non-stop direct flight by women when they flew a tupolev db2/ant37 aircraft named rodina 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) from moscow to komsomolsk-on-amur, on the south-eastern tip of siberia, september 24, 1938.