Natalya Aleksandrovna Kachuevskaya née Spirova (Russian: Наталья Александровна Качуевская; 22 February 1922 – 20 November 1942) was a medic in the Red Army during World War II who committed suicide with a grenade when surrounded, taking out several enemy soldiers in her death as well as avoiding capture.
Born on 22 February 1922 to a Russian family in Petrograd, she grew up with heavy influence of the theater arts since her mother and aunts were actresses.
Shortly after her birth her family moved to Moscow, where she graduated from her tenth grade of school in 1940 before entering the State Institute of Theater Arts.
During one of those concerts in a Moscow hospital she met her soon-to-be husband Pavel Kachuevsky, a partisan since September 1941 who had been recently evacuated from the front after being wounded in battle with surrounding German forces.
Taking satchel of grenades and a machine gun belonging to one of the wounded, she ran out from the dugout towards a hill to distract the Germans, who opened fire on her.