What is Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina?
[[File:Дёмина Екатерина Илларионовна.jpg|thumb|200px|Mikhailova-Demina in 2016]] '''Yekaterina Illarionovna Mikhailova-Demina''' ({{lang-ru|Екатерина Илларионовна Михайлова-Дёмина}}; 22 December 1925 – 24 June 2019) was a [[Russia]]n military doctor. She was the only woman to have served in front-line [[reconnaissance]] in the [[Naval Infantry (Russia)|Soviet marines]] during [[World War II]]. She reportedly carried hundreds of men off the battlefield and was seriously wounded three times during her career as a medic with the marines. For many years, Mikhailova-Demina was not awarded for her efforts during the war. In 1990, she was honoured by President [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] with the title of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]. Mikhailova-Demina was born in [[Leningrad]]. She died on 24 June 2019 in [[Moscow]], at the age of 93.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://xn----7sblqwdegk2n.xn--p1ai/news/4921-legendarnyj-saninstruktor-morskoj-pehoty-ushla-v-bessmertie.html|title=Легендарный санинструктор морской пехоты ушла в бессмертие|website=родина-моя.рф|date=26 June 2019|lang=ru|access-date=28 June 2019|archive-date=29 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729031716/https://xn----7sblqwdegk2n.xn--p1ai/news/4921-legendarnyj-saninstruktor-morskoj-pehoty-ushla-v-bessmertie.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mikhailova-Demina, Ekaterina}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:People from Saint Petersburg]] [[Category:Russian military people]] [[Category:Russian physicians]] [[Category:Soviet military personnel of World War II]] {{Bio-stub}}