Larisa Ratushnaya

Larisa Stepanovna Ratushnaya
Лариса Степановна Ратушная
Born9 January 1921
Tyvriv, Vinnytsia Province, Podolia Governorate
Died18 March 1944 (aged 23)
Nationality Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin

Larisa Ratushnaya (Russian: Лариса Ратушная; 9 January 1921 – 18 March 1944) was a Soviet partisan and underground resistance fighter. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965 twenty years after the end of the war.[1]

  1. ^ Sakaida, Henry (2012-04-20). Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 9781780966922.