Nora Pavlovna Chegodaeva ( 1905 - 1971 ) [1] - Soviet translator, director of the Central Women's School of sniper training during World War II , captain of the Red Army [2] .
| Nora Pavlovna Chegodaeva | |
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| Date of Birth | 1905 |
| Date of death | 1971 |
| Affiliation |  the USSR |
| Type of army | infantry |
| Rank |  captain |
| Commanded | Central Women's School sniper training |
| Battles / Wars | Spanish Civil War Great Patriotic War ( Volkhov Front ) |
| Awards and prizes |  |
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Biography
Daughter of a revolutionary Pavel Chegodaev, who worked in the People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR [1] . She graduated from the Military Academy named after MV Frunze (one of the first five women who graduated from the Military Academy) [3] . Fluent in French, German and Spanish [4] , served as a translator in the Red Army. She worked at the Lenin International School [4] .
She participated in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Second Spanish Republic , served on the front lines and worked as a translator for N.N. Voronova (Voltaire) [4] . Awarded the Order of the Red Banner [1] .
After the start of the Great Patriotic War, she headed the Central Women's School of sniper training, worked on the Volkhov front . Preparing future female snipers and personnel of women's aviation regiments. In 1943, he was sent to the USSR Embassy in Cuba after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries.
After the war, she worked as an editor of the French-language supplement to the magazine " New Time " [1] .
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Levin, 1986 , p. 49–51.
- ↑ WOMEN'S SNIPER SCHOOL (rus.)
- ↑ Valentine's Sniper (rus.)
- ↑ 1 2 3 Starinova, 2017 .
Literature
- Immanuel Levin. Notes of a military translator: language and "languages". - Moscow: Moscow Worker, 1986.
- Anna Starinova. Our ally is the night. - Liters, 2017. - 442 p. - ISBN 9785040056804 .