Cukanova, Marija Nikitična

Tsukanova, Mariya Nikitichna
Мария Никитична Цуканова
Rjad. Marija N. Cukanova – medical staff 355. separate battalion of the marine corps Pacific fleet

(1924 - 1945)


The heroine of the Soviet union

She was born 14. September 1924 in the village of Smojlanki for Omska in the family of rural teachers. When it broke war, worked on the pbx as telefonistka and later took to the gun factory in Irkutsk. While she attended the medical courses. Marija then in June 1942 joined the army and became zdravotnicí in the marine corps. Thereafter, until 1945, served in the military hospital in Primorsk, where it supposedly should marry a mate NAVY, the superintendent of the camp GULAG, who later on himself was killed at the front. Around this period of her life is still a lot of confusion. What is certain is only that Marija took part in the final operations of the Great patriotic war in August 1945 in the Far east. In liberating the Korean port of Seisin 14. August has brought the issue of the fight fifty-two wounded spolubojovníků. Herself was cheated střepinou mines and then hemmed the Japanese. Several of them had passed the fire of suddenly appeared with his fellow, but when she ran out of cartridges, fell into captivity and was the site of the ubita sabers and bayonets.

14. September, 1945, he was M. N. Cukanové posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the USSR. In Vladivostok stands her monument, many streets of Russian cities bears her name and is inscribed in golden letters in the chronicle of the marine corps Pacific war fleet..
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Otec Máši Cukanové zemřel ještě před jejím narozením. Vychovával jí otčím, dělník a účastník občanské války N. V. Krochmalev. Ten jí vedl ke sportu a četbě vlasteneckých knih. Máša aktivně provozovala lehkou atletiku, bruslení a lyžování a nejednou se umístila na prvním místě v okresních přeborech. Měla pět sourozenců - čtyři bratry a sestru. V roce 1941 se po dokončení sedmiletky chystala na pedagogickou nástavbu, ale válka její plány změnila.
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