Klavdiya Nazarova

Klavdiya Ivanovna Nazarova (Russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Наза́рова; 1 October 1920 – 12 December 1942) was an organizer of an underground Komsomol partisan unit in Ostrov during the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 20 August 1945 after she was executed by the Germans.

[2] Shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 Nazarova signed up for training to become a nurse but was soon appointed by the District Party Committee as the deputy commander of a youth paramilitary battalion assigned to tracking down and capturing Axis paratroopers entering the city.

However the group was overrun by numerically superior forces and most members of the unit fled Ostrov after the German occupation began.

Later they managed to get their hands on blank passports and provided the prisoners with forged versions of documents they were required to carry by German authorities.

The group's most crucial activities consisted of stealing a map of plans for the Leningrad blockade and providing the Soviet Airforce with information of the location of a fuel depot for bombing.