Anna Nikandrova

Anna Alekseevna Nikandrova (Russian: Анна Алексеевна Никандрова; 31 October 1921 – 23 June 1944) was a commissar and senior lieutenant in the 426th Rifle Regiment of the 88th Rifle Division, 31st Army on the 3rd Belorussian Front during World War II. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 March 1945.

Anna Alekseevna Nikandrova
Native name
Анна Алексеевна Никандрова
Born(1921-10-31)31 October 1921
Barashkino, Pskov Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died23 June 1944(1944-06-23) (aged 22)
Dubrovensky, Belarus
Allegiance Soviet Union
Service/branchInfantry
Years of service1941–1944
RankSenior Lieutenant
Unit426th Rifle Regiment
Battles/warsEastern Front of World War II †
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

Civilian life

Nikandrova was born on 31 October 1921 to a Russia peasant family in Barashkino. After graduating secondary school and training to become a librarian, she worked as a librarian until joining the Krasnogorodsky District Committee Komsomol. She became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1942.[1]

Military career

As a member of the Komsomol, she joined the Red Army in 1941 after the start of the Second World War. Originally she worked as a sanitation officer, evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield to field hospitals and providing assistance at military hospitals. After graduating from the junior lieutenant course she was assigned to the 426th Rifle Regiment.[2]

During the war she was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant after demonstrating her abilities in battle, for which she was awarded the Medal for Courage on 30 May 1943.[3]

In the battle near the railway station in Dubrovensky, Belarus on 23 June 1944, she led her battalion through heavy enemy fire into an anti-tank ditch to the battlefield and was killed in action taking out an axis machine-gun bunker the same day. Her body was buried in a mass grave of deceased Soviet soldiers and partisans, and a monument was eventually constructed at the site.[4][5]

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 24 March 1945 she was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for her actions in battle.[2]

Awards

See also

References
  1. "НИКАНДРОВА Анна Алексеевна | Will-remember.ru". will-remember.ru. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. "Никандрова Анна Алексеевна". www.warheroes.ru. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. "Подвиг народа". podvignaroda.ru. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  4. Sakaida, Henry (20 April 2012). Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780966922.
  5. "Никандрова Анна Алексеевна // Великая Отечественная Война. Опочецкий район. 1941—1944". Archived from the original on 27 November 2016.
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