Nina Timofeevna Gnilitskaya (Russian: Нина Тимофеевна Гнилицкая; 1 August [O.S. 19 July] 1916 – 10 December 1941) was a soldier and reconnaissance scout in the 465th Separate Motorized Rifle Reconnaissance Company of the 383rd Rifle Division in the 18th Army on the Southern Front during World War II. After fighting to death in a gunfight against German soldiers when they discovered her hiding place she became the only woman reconnaissance scout in the Red Army to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union after the Supreme Soviet posthumously awarded her the title on 31 March 1943.
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19 July 1916 (located in present-day Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine)
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Died |
10 December 1941 (aged 25) Knyaginevka, Soviet Union
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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