A rare photo of crypto Mazanik E. G. – Hero of the Soviet Union

The original one of the most famous women Heroes of the Soviet Union in very good collectible condition. Mazanik Elena G. has received such a high award for a unique achievement – the elimination of the Commissioner General of Belarus Wilhelm von cube. Size 73*90 mm. the Original.

Mazanik Elena G. (underground name – "Gale"). Born on March 22 (April 4,) 1914, in the village Podagraria now Pukhavichy district, Minsk region of the Republic of Belarus in a peasant family. Belarusian. Member of the CPSU (b)/CPSU since 1946. Graduated 6 classes. Worked as a matron in the rest house of the Central Committee of the Communist party (Bolsheviks)of Belarus. Elena Mazanik has made a unique feat in the history of the great Patriotic war. Together with other brave podpolschikami (Osipova M. B. and Trojan N. V.) she led the execution of the sentence the executioner Belarusian people, the General Commissar of Belarus Wilhelm von Kube. On the night of 22 September 1943 in Minsk by order of the command of the guerrilla group — "Dima" fixed it mine was killed by Hitler's protege, the General Commissar of Belarus, whose house Mazanik worked as a maid. Subsequently carry out combat missions behind enemy lines. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the order of Lenin and medal "gold Star" (No. 1208) Mazanik Yelena Grigorievna has 29 Oct 1943. In 1948 he graduated from the Republican party school of the Central Committee of the PBC, in 1952; Minsk state pedagogical Institute. In the years 1952-60, Deputy Director of the Fundamental library of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR. Honored worker of culture of the Byelorussian SSR. Died 7 APR 1996. Buried in the city-hero of Minsk, on the East (Moscow) cemetery. Awarded the order of Lenin, order of the Patriotic war, 1 St degree, medals. On the house № 2 along the street Chicherin in the hero-city of Minsk, where she was E. G. Mazanik, a memorial plaque.