Mariya Osipova

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovna and the family name is Osipova.
Mariya Osipova
Марыя Осіпава
Osipova in 1944
Born
Mariya Borisovna Sokovtsova

27 December 1908
Serkavitsy, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Belarus)
Died5 February 1999 (aged 90)
Minsk, Belarus
Nationality Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class

Mariya Borisovna Osipova (Belarusian: Марыя Барысаўна Осіпава, romanized: Maryja Barysaǔna Osipava, Russian: Мари́я Бори́совна О́сипова; 27 December 1908 – 5 February 1999) was a Soviet Belarusian partisan who provided Yelena Mazanik with the bomb she used to kill Wilhelm Kube, a high-ranking SS officer and the General-Commissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus. For doing so, Osipova and her co-conspirators were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943.[1]

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