Yelena Mazanik

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Grigoryevna and the family name is Mazanik.

Yelena Mazanik
Алена Мазанік
Born(1914-03-02)2 March 1914
Poddegtyarnaya village, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Belarus)
Died7 April 1996(1996-04-07) (aged 82)
Minsk, Belarus
Nationality Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class

Yelena Grigoryevna Mazanik (Russian: Еле́на Григо́рьевна Маза́ник, Belarusian: Але́на Рыго́раўна Маза́нік, romanized: Aliena Ryhoraǔna Mazanik; 2 March 1914 – 7 April 1996) was a Soviet Belarusian partisan responsible for the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, General-Kommissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus, whom she killed by placing a small time-bomb under his bed while working for him as a housemaid. For assassinating him she and her co-conspirators were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.[1] Her post-war life was spent as a librarian.

  1. ^ Sakaida, Henry (20 April 2012). Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 58. ISBN 9781780966922.