Nina Gnilitskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hero of the Soviet Union
Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1916
Place of Birth: Don Host Oblast
Date of Death: 10-Dec-1941
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Nina Gnilitskaya
- Nina Gnilitskaya (Russian: ???? ?????????; 1 August 1916 – 10 December 1941) was a soldier and reconnaissance scout in the 465th Separate Motorized Rifle Reconnaissance Company of the 383rd Rifle Division in the 18th Army on the Southern Front during World War II.
- After fighting to death in a gunfight against German soldiers when they discovered her hiding place she became the only woman reconnaissance scout in the Red Army to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union after the Supreme Soviet posthumously awarded her the title on 31 March 1943.
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