Nadezhda Volkova

Nadezhda Terentyevna Volkova
Надежда Терентьевна Волкова
Born20 June 1920
Died26 November 1942 (aged 22)
Nationality Soviet Union
AwardsHero 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]

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