Valentina Ivanovna Safronova (Russian: Валентина Ивановна Сафронова; 1918 – 1 May 1943) was a Soviet partisan and intelligence officer who engaged in reconnaissance and sabotage until she was captured and killed by the Gestapo.

After completing school she worked as the leader of a pioneer detachment and later as a supervisor in a small savings bank that was later used as hideout by resistance members during German occupation.

[5][3] On one of her most successful missions she and a partisan dressed as a German police officer delivered a crate of TNT from Moscow to Byransk, which was used to attack a factory that produced tanks and motor vehicles.

On the route the partisans escaped German military patrols twice, walked through deep snow, and destroyed field fortifications with a machine gun.

Only a week after delivering the documents she suffered a severe concussion on 16 March 1942 and was sent to a Soviet hospital, but parachuted with supplies from Moscow into German-occupied territory immediately after recovering in May.

Shortly after she flew back to Bryansk from Moscow she and two other partisans, one of whom was her company commander, got lost in the forest while searching for the rest of the detachment, which had recently retreated after heavy battle.