Ulyana Gromova

Ulyana Gromova
Native name
Уляна Громова
Born(1924-01-03)3 January 1924
Pervomaiskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Died16 January 1943(1943-01-16) (aged 19)
Krasnodon, Reichskommissariat Ukraine
(now Ukraine)
Allegiance Soviet Union
Years of service1942–1943
UnitYoung Guard
Battles / wars
Awards

Ulyana Matveyevna Gromova (Ukrainian: Уляна Матвіївна Громова, romanizedUliana Matviyivna Hromova; Russian: Ульяна Матвеевна Громова; 3 January 1924 – 16 January 1943) was a Soviet partisan who was a member of the Young Guard resistance movement in Krasnodon, in modern-day eastern Ukraine. She was executed by the Nazis in 1943, along with the rest of the Young Guard's leadership, and was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union.