Born in the village of Kiverichi in Tver Oblast in 1924, Ina Konstantinova grew up near the northeastern Russian town of Kashin with her parents and sister.
[1] She was a sixteen-year-old Komsomol member and student at the beginning of the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
[2] Still too young to fight in the military in the first days of the attack in the summer of 1941, Konstantinova joined a voluntary aid detachment and helped assist wounded people with the district committee of the Red Cross.
[2][4] Working among the partisans a reconnaissance scout for the brigade for the remaining years of her life during, Konstaninova would be sent behind enemy lines several times.
[2] Konstantinova perished on 4 March 1944, when, covering the retreat of her comrades away from an ambushed dugout in the course of a partisan reconnaissance operation with her submachine gun firing, she was killed in a skirmish with an advancing German unit near the village of Lukyanovo (present-day Pskov Oblast).