Alime Abdenanova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alime Abdenanova

Crimean Tatar scout for the Red Army and Hero of the Russian Federation

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1924

Place of Birth: Kerch, Russia

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1944

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Alime Seitosmanovna Abdenanova (Crimean Tatar: Alime Seitosman qizi Abdenanova; 4 January 1924 — 5 April 1944) — was a Crimean Tatar soldier in the Separate Coastal Army during World War II.
After the German occupation of Crimea began in 1943 she led her reconnaissance group in the collection of intelligence about the positions of German and Romanian troops throughout the Kerch Peninsula, for which she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
After the group was arrested by the Germans in February Abdenanova was tortured for over a month but refused to pass on any information to her captors.
At the age of twenty she was executed on the outskirts of Simferopol on 5 April 1944.
On 1 September 2014 by decree of Vladimir Putin she was posthumously declared a Hero of the Russian Federation, making her the sixteenth woman and first Crimean Tatar awarded the title.