Yekaterina Ivanovna Zelenko (September 14, 1916—September 12, 1941) was a Soviet (ethnic Ukrainian) war pilot. She is the only woman ever known to have performed an aerial ramming. Zelenko attended seven school classes in Kursk. With her mother's move to Voronezh, Yekaterina entered the Voronezh Secondary Flying School. In October 1933 she passed through Voronezh Flying Club and was sent to the 3rd Orenburg Military Flying Academy named after Kliment Voroshilov. Later she found herself in Kharkiv, assigned to the 19th Light Bomber Brigade. In the Winter War Zelenko was the only female pilot.