“Military council of the Separate Coastal Army put a motion to award the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union to:
3. A staff sergeant, Maria Karpovna BAYDA - a medical orderly in the 514th Infantry Regiment.
Comrade BAYDA fought a heated gun battle against the enemy, killing fifteen soldiers and one officer with her submachine gun, then killed four more soldiers by hitting them on the head with the butt of her weapon in order to rescue her commander and eight other soldiers, took enemy machine gun and several other weapons.”
Everyone knows about Anna Frank and her diary, but let me tell you about the other girl, who lived and died during the War.
Her name was Tanya Savicheva. Born on January 23, 1930, she was the youngest child in a big family. Her father died when Tanya was six, leaving her mother with five children—three girls, Tanya, Zhenya (Eugenia) and Nina and two boys, Mikhail and Leka (Leonid).
The family planned to spend the summer of 1941 in the countryside, but the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22 disrupted their plans. All of them, except Mikhail (Misha), who had already left, decided to stay in Leningrad. Through out all 872 days of Blocade. Each of them worked to support the army, even the 11 years old Tanya, who dug trenches and put out firebombs. Nina was evacuated and she left Tanya a small diary, only nine pages left.
Roza Rubanenko, born in 1924, combat medic | Роза Рубаненко, 1924 г. р., санитарный инструктор by Olga Via Flickr: Roza Rubanenko, born in 1924, combat medic of the rifle battalion of the 105th Guards Rifle Regiment, 34th Guards Rifle Enakievo Red Banner Division From the award list for the Order of Glory III degree: In the extremely difficult conditions of the battle in the area of the Bug River, Roza Rubanenko carried 20 wounded from the battlefield along with their weapons and transported them to the other side of the river. In the battles for the village of Strassburg on April 8, 1944, she carried 15 wounded from the battlefield along with their weapons and, being slightly wounded, did not leave the battlefield and continued to provide medical assistance to the wounded, while taking out two officers from the battlefield and assisting four soldiers . In this battle, Roza Rubanenko was seriously wounded for the second time. Роза Рубаненко, 1924 г. р., санитарный инструктор стрелкового батальона 105 Гвардейского стрелкового полка, 34 Гвардейской стрелковой Енакиевской Краснознамённой дивизии Из наградного листа к ордену Славы III степени: В исключительно трудных условиях боя в районе реки Буг Роза рубаненко вынесла с поля боя 20 раненых вместе с их оружием и переправила их на другой берег реки. В боях за село Страссбург 8 апреля 1944 года она вынесла с поля боя 15 раненых вместе с их оружием и, будучи легко ранена, не покинула поле боя и продолжала оказывать медицинскую помощь раненым, при этом вынесла с поля боя двух офицеров и оказала помощь четырём бойцам. В этом бою Роза Рубаненко была вторично тяжело ранена.
