Raisa Nikolaevna Kapshuchenko , known as Raisa Okipnaya ( February 3 ( February 16 ) 1914 - November 6, 1942 ), is a famous Ukrainian Soviet actress. Prima of the Kiev Opera House (during the German occupation - Grosse Oper Kiew). During the Great Patriotic War, Raisa became a member of the Kiev Soviet underground (reconnaissance and sabotage group of Ivan Kudri ).
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Biography
Born on February 3 ( February 16 ), 1914 , in Chernigov, in the family of a priest, Father Nikolai Vasilyevich Kapshuchenko.
Childhood spent in with. Wow, where her mother was from. She worked in the Vinnitsa Music and Drama Theater, Kiev Russian Drama Theater, Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater. She lived with her parents on Chkalov Street (now Oles Gonchar), No. 32.
A member of the Kiev underground group Ivan Kudri (operational pseudonym - "Maxim") during the German occupation. Even before the arrival of the Germans, Ivan Kudrya was acquainted with Eugenia Bremer, who was German by birth, whose husband worked in the NKVD before the war. With the help of Bremer, he met Raisa Okipnoy.
Once Ivan Kudrya learned that Germans were building a secret military facility near Vinnitsa in the forest. From the railway station to the forest there is a railway line and a road. Construction was carried out in an atmosphere of extreme secrecy. Maxim believed that since Raisa knew Vinnitsa well, she would get permission to travel without problems. But Ivan Danilovich did not take into account that since Hitler’s secret rate was built near Vinnitsa, everything connected with this city was the subject of special attention from the Hitlerite special services. Therefore, when Okipnaya requested to give a concert in her hometown, SD (security service) became aware of this. SD organized a check with the help of its agent “Nanette” - Natalia Frantsevna Grunwald . The latter was able to win the trust of the artist. When it became known to Kudra that Okipnaya met the doctor, the head of the laboratory of the local polyclinic, he decided to meet this woman himself. So Ivan Kudrya came to the attention of the Gestapo.
Okipnaya introduced Ivan Danilovich as a student of Ivan Kondratyuk and asked to write out a certificate of exemption from classes for him. In the course of further development, the Gestapo received new information allowing suspecting Cudrew in underground work.
On July 5, 1942, Ivan Kudrya and Raisa Okipnaya were arrested. The next day, arrested Eugene Bremer.
The exact date of death is unknown. According to some testimonies, she was shot along with other members of an underground group at Babi Yar in November 1942 .
Memory
- On May 8, 1965, Raisa Okipnaya was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class.
- In 1965, a street in Kiev was named after the heroine.
- In 1967, at the A. Dovzhenko film studio, a film was shot about the group I. Curls “ Two years above the precipice ”.
Links
- Kapshuchenko, Raisa Nikolaevna on the " Rodovide ". Tree of ancestors and descendants
- essay by L. Virina “Nothing passes”, “Spark”, No. 46, 1964, p. 26-27
- Kiev calendar
- Lyubov Khazan “Resident's Mistake”, “Gordon Boulevard” No. 51, 2012
- http://kiev.vgorode.ua/news/82967/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111105093702/http://www.szru.gov.ua/article.php?lang=ua
- Birth certificate