Nadezhda Terentyevna Volkova (Russian: Надежда Терентьевна Волкова; 20 June 1920 – 26 November 1942) was a courier in an underground Komsomol cell during the Second World War. She was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965, over twenty years after death in the war.
Civilian life Volkova was born on 24 June 1920 in Kharkiv to a white-collar family; her father was Russian and her mother Jewish. In 1936 her family moved to Konotop in Sumy, where she graduated from secondary school. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 Nadezhda was evacuated to Insary village in the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. There she enrolled in nursing courses and began working in a nearby hospital until March 1942.
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Nadezhda Terentyevna Volkova (Russian: Надежда Терентьевна Волкова; 20 June 1920 – 26 November 1942) was a courier in an underground Komsomol cell during the Second World War. She was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965, over twenty years after death in the war.
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Partisan activities Volkova left her job at the hospital in March to attend training at the Central School of Partisan Organizers in Moscow. After graduating from the school in the fall she was assigned to the Volchansk Forest Partisan Detachment, based in the Kharkov Oblast of Ukraine. She was appointed to work as the liaison officer for Aleksandr Shcherbak, the secretary of the detachment and regional Komsomol Committee. When the group parachuted into the forest of Starosaltovskiy, Shcherbak landed in a tree and broke his legs when he jumped out of the tree. He was given crutches but struggled to walk for the rest of his life. A Gestapo unit was headquartered in the district, resulting in a large police presence that made carrying out operations very difficult for the partisans. As the liaison officer Volkova was tasked with going on reconnaissance missions to gather information about enemy activities and transfer information across partisan units. She was also effective in recruiting new members to join the resistance, having spread leaflets across several villages and spoken to young people interested in joining the unit. While the Komsomol committee was intended primarily to develop resistance efforts and organize partisan detachments, committee members…
