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Yelena Konstantinovna Stempkovskaya (Russian: Елена Константиновна Стемпковская; Belarusian: Алена Канстанцінаўна Стампкоўская, romanized: Alena Kanstantsinawna Stampkowskaya; October 1921 – 30 June 1942) was a Soviet radio operator in the 216th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army during World War II who was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 May 1946.
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Yelena Konstantinovna Stempkovskaya (Russian: Елена Константиновна Стемпковская; Belarusian: Алена Канстанцінаўна Стампкоўская, romanized: Alena Kanstantsinawna Stampkowskaya; October 1921 – 30 June 1942) was a Soviet radio operator in the 216th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army during World War II who was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 May 1946.
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Early life Stempkovskaya was born in October 1921 to a Belarusian family in Mazurshchina in the Minsk region. Born and raised in the Byelorussian SSR, she completed her seventh grade of school at a school in Makhnovichi in 1938 before moving to the Syrdarya region of the Uzbek SSR with her parents, who found employment on a cotton sovkhoz in Bayaut. There, she continued her studies in addition to working in the cotton fields in the summer and being a young pioneer leader. Despite dreaming of becoming a ship's captain at one point, she eventually decided to become a teacher, entering the history department of the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute in 1940.
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World War II Shortly after starting another semester in September 1941, she left school for the army in November 1941. Initially she attended local radio operator courses, which she graduated from in January 1942 before being deployed to the warfront; the classes normally lasted over a year, but due to the war they were condensed to an intense several months of study. Nevertheless, she excelled as a radio operator, and was made a section leader in her class. Upon deployment on the Southern front she initially took part in the battle for Volchansk before reaching the city of Kharkov in May 1942. Throughout the war she participated in the battles for Volchansk, Kharkov, as well as the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation. Having initially been assigned as a radio operator for a tank unit to help them communicate with infantry, she found herself wanting to get closer to the frontlines, and was eventually assigned to the 2nd battalion of the 216th Infantry Regiment. In addition to serving in her capacity as a radio operator, she practiced firing machine guns; in one of her letters home she wrote that she was happy for have found her place in the military. On 30 June the…
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