Yelena Grigorievna Mazanik (Russian: Елена Григорьевна Мазаник, Belarusian: Алена Рыгораўна Мазанік; 2 March 1914 – 7 April 1996) was the Soviet partisan responsible for the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, General-Kommissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus, whom she killed by placing a small time-bomb under his bed while working for him as a housemaid. For assassinating him she and her co-conspirators were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943 by decree of the Supreme Soviet. Her post-war life was spent as a librarian.
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2 March 1914 Minsk, Belarus
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7 April 1996 (aged 82) Minsk, Belarus
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