Tatyana Marinenko

Tatyana Savelyevna Marinenko (Belarusian: Таццяна Савельеўна Марыненка; Russian: Татьяна Савельевна Мариненко; 25 January 1920 – 2 August 1942) was a Soviet partisan and intelligence officer of the NKVD during the Second World War.

[1] Marinenko was born on 25 January 1920 to a Belarusian peasant family in the small village of Sukhoi Bor in what is now Polotsk district, present-day Belarus.

[2] The schoolteacher began working as a partisan reconnaissance scout for the NKVD when the Germans invaded and occupied Polotsk.

Marinenko and her 14-year-old brother, who was also a partisan, were shot by the Axis after three days of interrogation and torture along with 28 other villagers who were part of the resistance.

A monument to Marinenko (pictured) was installed in Polotsk in addition to multiple schools named in her honor.

Bust of Marinenko in Polotsk