There were Legends about Her Bravery and Engineering Savvy: V.V. Nemtsov’s Leadership in War and in Peacetime
https://doi.org/10.56654/ROPI-2026-1(18)-61-85
Abstract
During the Great Patriotic War, thousands of Soviet women, along with men, rose up to defend their homeland. The history of this war knows that women fought in the Red Army and Navy, partisan detachments and formations, in the ranks of the underground. At the same time, they were not only doctors, medical instructors, signalmen and traffic controllers, but also pilots, tankmen, gunners, drivers, translators, investigators of the military prosecutor’s office, intelligence and counterintelligence officers, soldiers and officers of the rear units, etc. There were chemical warriors among the women who found themselves in the war. The military fates and front-line roads of some of them were truly amazing, so much so that they made even the commanders of the fronts admire. These include the fate of Victoria Vasilyevna Nemtsova, the head of the chemical service of the 58th Infantry Division of the 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front.
About the Authors
E. A. Chugunov
Federal State Military Educational Establishment for Higher Education «Nuclear Biological Defence Military Academy after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko (Kostroma), the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Evgeny A. Chugunov, CandSc (Hist.), Associate Professor, Professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the research Laboratory (substantiation of initial data for planning the development of the VIS protection system)
Kostroma
Auhtor ID: 800314
K. N. Akkuzin
Federal State Military Educational Establishment for Higher Education «Nuclear Biological Defence Military Academy after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko (Kostroma), the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Konstantin N. Akkuzin, CandSc (Mil.), Associate Professor, Lieutenant Colonel, Head of the Department of Scientific Research and Training of Scientific and Pedagogical Personnel
Kostroma
V. I. Kovba
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Viktor I. Kovba, CandSc (Mil.), Associate Professor, Colonel in Reserve, Associate Professor of the Department of Geospatial Systems and Integrated Security
Kaluga
Auhtor ID: 1222149
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Chugunov E.A., Akkuzin K.N., Kovba V.I. There were Legends about Her Bravery and Engineering Savvy: V.V. Nemtsov’s Leadership in War and in Peacetime. Russia: Society, Politics, History. 2026;(1(18)):61-85. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.56654/ROPI-2026-1(18)-61-85
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