Vera Kharuzhaya

Vera Kharuzhaya
Born27 September 1903
Babruysk, Russian Empire
DiedNovember 1942 (1942-12) (aged 39)
Vitebsk, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Allegiance Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner

Vera Kharuzhaya (Belarusian: Вера Харужая, Russian: Ве́ра Заха́ровна Хору́жая, Polish: Wiera Charuża, 27 September 1903 – November 1942) was a Belarusian Communist writer, school teacher and activist from the Soviet Union deployed to Poland for sabotage and espionage operation during the interbellum. She was executed as a partisan by the Germans during World War II.