Galina Petrova
Galina Petrova
Galina Petrova (Russian: Галина Петрова) was a Chief Petty Officer in the medical service of the 386th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. She died in a bombing on 4 December 1943 less than a month after she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and an Order of Lenin on 17 November 1943 for her bravery in the Kerch-Eltigen operation.