The legendary Soviet intelligence officer, Nadezhda Troyan, died.
Nadezhda Troyan is spoken of as a legend of Soviet intelligence. During World War II, she was in the German-occupied Belarus. At first, she was a member of an underground organization that collected data about the enemy. Then she fought in partisan detachments: she blew up bridges and participated in attacks on enemy convoys.
The most successful operation, in the preparation of which Nadezhda Troyan participated, is the elimination of the Gauleiter of Belarus - Reich Commissar Wilhelm von Cuba. This feat of our intelligence officers later shot the film "The clock stopped at midnight," says Channel One.
Troyan was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and was also awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Patriotic War of I degree, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and a number of other high awards for participation in the Great Patriotic War and post-war labor and social activities .
In the post-war years, continues the IA Regnum, Troyan received the profession of doctor, defended her thesis as a candidate of medical sciences, and taught at a number of Moscow medical universities. She was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the USSR Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, member of the Peace Protection Committee, member of the Council of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters, Co-Chair of the International Organization of Health Education, Soviet activist veteran movement.
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