Studničková-Horálková, Lydie

Colonel Lydie Studnickova-Horalkova


Radistka 2. MS. separate parachute brigade in the USSR.


She was born on February 16, 1927 in Kiev in the family of the Czechoslovak legionary Jaroslav Studnička, who after the revolution decided to stay in Ukraine, where he married a local girl. Lída went to a Czech primary school together with her two brothers and then entered the first year of a Czech secondary school. However, the study was interrupted by the war. Because the father had Czechoslovak citizenship, the whole family was interned in Oranky and later in the Volga town of Bykov, where Lída started working at the post office as a helper. Her father was sent to the gulag, from where he was not released until the summer of 1942, when he volunteered for the newly formed Czechoslovak military unit in Buzuluk. The following year, the rest of the family followed him there and all its members became members of 1. MS. separate field battalion. Lída also wanted to take part in military training, and although she was assigned only to auxiliary work as a minor, she was keenly interested in combat equipment, weapons and radios.


At the end of 1943, she learned that 2 was forming in Jefremov. MS. a separate paratroop brigade and decided to join it. Because she did not reach conscription age, she wrote the year of birth in her documents. In January 1944, she was put into condition and subsequently underwent shooting, radiotelegraphic and parachute training, which she completed in the summer of 1944 in Proskurov.


At the beginning of September 1944, her unit moved to Przemysl, where Lída, as a radio operator of the liaison company, directly participated in the fighting of the Carpathian-Dukla operation. On October 4, she and her entire connecting company were stationed at Tri Duby Airport near Zvolen to help the Slovak National Uprising. Immediately after landing, she took part in the fighting, which lasted until the defeat of the uprising at the end of October. With the submachine gun, she was always in the front rows and with her courage she surpassed many men. Then, with the rest of the liaison company, she completed a demanding march through the mountains to the Lomnista Valley, where the brigade's assembly point was determined. In November 1944, she was selected to a special operational group Tarzan under the pseudonym Marie Stančíková. At the turn of November and December, she took part in the fighting in Krpáčov and the raid on the German headquarters in Mýto pod Ďumbierom. She was a contact and a nurse in one person and provided radio communication throughout the event.

In February 1945, she crossed the front line to Kežmarok, where she underwent an advanced radiotelegraphic non-commissioned officer course so that she could return to the front on May 8. However, as a result of the German surrender, her mission was canceled and on May 15 she joined the reserve regiment as a liaison. From June 21, she worked at the headquarters of the 1st Division in Prague-Kbely, where a bronchial disease from the Slovak mountains reported. After several months of treatment, she returned to the army in early 1946 and was promoted to the rank of officer. At the same time she was also additionally awarded Czechoslovak War Cross 1939 and Order of the Slovak National Uprising 2nd degree.


From the time she was hired on January 1, 1946, she worked in the administrative apparatus of the liaison army, and from the beginning of 1949 she became an interpreter at the Garrison Headquarters of Greater Prague in contact with the Soviet Army Command for her thorough knowledge of Russian. In the autumn of the same year, however, she was removed from this position and, after a short forced leave, assigned to the Air Operations Center in Kbely. By order of the Minister of Defense A. The cap was then released from the army in the spring of 1950 and in August of the same year deprived of military rank and the right to wear a uniform. Then she married Antonín Horálek, adopted his surname and a year later her son Pavel was born. She was on maternity leave and then a housewife until the early 1960s, when she was granted a full military invalidity pension. In 1968 she was partially and in 1992 fully rehabilitated.

She died on June 7, 2004 in Nové Křečany near Rumburk.


Source: Czechoslovak military personalities 1939 - 1945, col. authors
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