Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Heroine of the Soviet Union and WWII veteran
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina
- Ekaterina Illarionovna Mikhailova-Demina (Russian: ????????? ???????????? ?????????-??????; 22 December 1925 – 24 June 2019) was a Russian military doctor who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during World War II.She carried hundreds of men off the battlefield and was seriously wounded three times during her career as a medic with the marines.
- Despite repeatedly being nominated she was denied high honors at the war's end, reflecting the Soviet Union's unequal approach to honoring its fighting men and women.
- However, she was belatedly honored by President Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1990 with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
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