Yelena Mazanik

Partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union who assassinated Wilhelm Kube (1914–1996)

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Lived 1914–1996, aged 82
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    1914–1996
    Aged 82
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Updated 2026-07-18

Yelena Grigoryevna Mazanik was a Soviet Belarusian partisan responsible for the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, General-Kommissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus, whom she killed by placing a small time-bomb under his bed while working for him as a housemaid. For assassinating him she and her co-conspirators were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943 by decree of the Supreme Soviet. Her post-war life was spent as a librarian.

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