HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION, NURSE MARINE MARIYA TSUKANOVA
The paper presents the biography of Mariya Tsukanova, marine, medical instructor and senior seaman in the 355 th Independent Guards Naval Infantry Battalion of the Pacific Fleet, her correspondence with parents, data of her military career, studies and work in Vladivostok, inauguration of memorial to Mariya Tsukanova on the territory of the Main Military Clinical Hospital of the Pacific Fleet and in Chongjin memorial military cemetery, Korea. Documentary evidence as a result of many years of searching of historical documentation has been used also. Mariya Tsukanova was awarded posthumously with Order of Lenin and she got the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The name of Mariya Tsukanova was immortalized in monuments, memorial plates, names of streets, villages, rivers and bays. Historical documentation and document evidence of Mariya Tsukanova are kept in libraries and museums of Leningrad, Abakan, Tomsk, Barnaul and Vladivostok.