Controversies About Number of Victories
There have been several different versions of Budanova's aerial victory score published, with no official tally. The most common quoted is for 11 kills (6 individual and 5 shared). According to some historians she achieved 11 individual air victories.
Pasportnikova has stated that Budanova had five personal kills at the time of her death. She was twice awarded Order of the Patriotic War. Although she was proposed for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the war she did not receive it officially. In 1 October 1993 she was posthumously awarded with the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
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