Larisa Ratushnaya (Russian: Лариса Ратушная; 9 January 1921 – 18 March 1944) was a Soviet partisan and underground resistance fighter.

[1] Ratushnaya was born on 9 January 1921 to a Ukrainian peasant family in the village of Tyvriv, located within present-day Ukraine.

[2][3] After leaving her studies at Moscow State University she entered nursing courses so she could enlist in the local militia after completing training.

[4] Ratushnaya was again arrested by the Gestapo in July 1942 while she was working at a candle factory and sent her to the concentration camp in Hnivan, which she escaped from in April 1943.

On 18 March 1944 she was killed by an Axis infiltrator of her unit who had knocked on her door and asked to speak to her before shooting her twice.