captain-price-official:Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, Hero of the Soviet Union and Recipient of the F
captain-price-official:Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, Hero of the Soviet Union and Recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal. She carried hundreds of men off the battlefield and was seriously wounded three times during her career as a medic with the Soviet marines. Despite repeatedly being nominated she was denied high honors at the war’s end, reflecting the Soviet Union’s unequal approach to honoring its fighting men and women. However, she was belatedly honored by President Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1990 with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union -- source link