Ulyana Gromova | |
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Native name | Уляна Громова |
Born | Pervomaiskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | 3 January 1924
Died | 16 January 1943 Krasnodon, Reichskommissariat Ukraine (now Ukraine) | (aged 19)
Allegiance | Soviet Union |
Years of service | 1942–1943 |
Unit | Young Guard |
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Ulyana Matveyevna Gromova (Ukrainian: Уляна Матвіївна Громова, romanized: Uliana 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.