What is Aleksey Botyan?
[[File:Ботян_Алексей_Николаевич_2016_год.jpg|right|200px]] '''Aleksey Nikolayevich Botyan''' ({{lang-ru|Алексей Николаевич Ботян}}; 10 February 1917 – 13 February 2020) was a Soviet-Russian spy and intelligence officer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/342917-fallece-103-anos-alexei-botian|title=Fallece Alexéi Botián, legendario agente de inteligencia soviético que lideró el operativo de rescate de Cracovia durante la II Guerra Mundial|date=13 February 2020|work=RT|language=Spanish}}</ref> He was awarded the title of [[Hero of the Russian Federation]] in 2007 for his role in protecting the Polish city of [[Kraków]] from destruction by the [[Nazis]] in January 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/13/us/ap-eu-russia-obit-botyan.html|title=Russian WWII Intelligence Veteran Botyan Dies at 103|date=13 February 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=27 February 2020|archive-date=13 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213174112/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/13/us/ap-eu-russia-obit-botyan.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Botyan died in [[Moscow]] on 13 February 2020, at the age of 103.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20200213/1564633979.html|title=Умер разведчик Алексей Ботян|date=13 February 2020|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|language=Russian}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Botyan, Aleksey}} [[Category:1917 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Russian centenarians]] [[Category:Spies]] [[Category:Russian military people]] {{bio-stub}}