Nadezhda Terentyevna Volkova | |
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Надежда Терентьевна Волкова | |
Born | 20 June 1920 |
Died | 26 November 1942 (aged 22) |
Nationality | Soviet Union |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
Nadezhda Terentyevna Volkova (Russian: Наде́жда Тере́нтьевна Во́лкова; 20 June 1920 – 26 November 1942) was a courier in an underground Komsomol cell during the Second World War. She was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965, over twenty years after death in the war.[1]