MILITARY PERSONNEL

Valeriya Gnarovskaya

1923 - 1943

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Valeriya Osipovna Gnarovskaya (Russian: Вале́рия О́сиповна Гнаро́вская; 18 October 1923 – 23 September 1943) was a combat medic in the 907th Rifle Regiment who fought on the Stalingrad Front in World War II. On 23 September 1943, when a German tank broke through the Soviet line of defence where she was treating wounded soldiers, she threw herself under the tank with a bag of grenades, killing herself but repulsing the German counterattack. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 3 June 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Valeriya Gnarovskaya is the 1,984th most popular military personnel (down from 1,944th in 2024), the 2,444th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,354th in 2019) and the 156th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Valeriya Gnarovskaya ranks 1,984 out of 2,058. Before her are Hubert Gough, Willis Augustus Lee, George Henry Thomas, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, Hugh McCulloch, and James L. Jones. After her are Aytaç Yalman, Keith Park, Lisa Franchetti, Charles James Napier, Daniel Harvey Hill, and Maues.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Valeriya Gnarovskaya ranks 450. Before her are Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Dannie Abse, Mort Walker, Hans Wetterström, Judith Merril, and Óscar González. After her are Boris Sagal, Aleksy Antkiewicz, Horace Ashenfelter, Theo Fitzau, Dolores Fuller, and Arthur Jensen. Among people deceased in 1943, Valeriya Gnarovskaya ranks 231. Before her are Lida Heymann, Reginald McKenna, Alexander Hall, Montagu Love, Herbert Roper Barrett, and Tully Marshall. After her are Stephen Vincent Benét, Arthur Streeton, Foy Draper, Hobart Bosworth, George Moorhouse, and Cornelia Fort.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeriya Gnarovskaya ranks 2,444 out of 3,761. Before her are Veniamin Alexandrov (1937), Alexander Mogilny (1969), Pavel Chukhray (1946), Dmitry Nagiyev (1967), Viktor Markin (1957), and Pavlo Klimkin (1967). After her are Aleksandr Lenyov (1944), Aleksandras Abišala (1955), Nikolai Durov (1980), Maksim Tarasov (1970), Pavel Datsyuk (1978), and Yuri Falin (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Valeriya Gnarovskaya ranks 156. Before her are Arseny Golovko (1906), Aleksandr Lapin (1964), Igor Sergun (1957), Igor Kirillov (1970), Aleksandr Moiseyev (1962), and Leonid Khabarov (1947). After her are Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (1925), Isa Munayev (1965), Ruslan Gelayev (1964), Oleg Mityaev (1974), Yevgeny Rodionov (1977), and Roman Kutuzov (1969).

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