Maria Baida

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Maria Baida

Maria Baida (February 1, 1922 - August 30, 2002) (Russian: Мария Карповна Байда) was a World War II scout in Crimea. When she was surrounded by Wehrmacht submachine gunners, she fought a heated gun battle against them, killing fifteen, wounding several more, and routing the rest, escaping wounded. She received the military award of Hero of the Soviet Union. Her surname is sometimes spelled as "Bade" in English, but "Baida" is a more accurate spelling.

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Maria Baida was a nurse in the 2nd Battalion of 514th shooting a shelf of 172-nd shooting division of Red Army of the North-Caucasian front, the senior sergeant In 1936 has ended incomplete high school in the city of Jankoi. Worked in state farm, in hospital, then in cooperative society of village Voinka of area Krasnoperekopskogo. In Red Army since 1941. Has ended rates of nurses. In fights of Great Domestic war since September, 1941 In one of fights for city of Russian glory Sevastopol in May, 1942 has released from a captivity of the Soviet commander and several fighters, having destroyed 15 fascists The decree of Presidium of the Supreme body of the USSR from June, 20th, 1942 for exemplary performance of fighting tasks of command both the shown courage and heroism in fights with fascist aggressors to the senior sergeant Maria Karpovne's Baida appropriates a rank of the Hero of Soviet Union with delivery of an award of Lenin and a medal " the Gold Star " On July, 12th, 1942, being hard wounded, Maria Bajda was taken prisoner, has passed concentration camps "Slavuta" and "Ravensbruck". Being in a captivity, kept courageously. It is released from a fascist concentration camp by the American armies on May, 8th, 1945

After WWII it is demobilized. Long years headed the Sevastopol city department of civil registration. It was repeatedly selected the deputy of city council. Since 1976 - the Honourable citizen of a hero town of Sevastopol