Rank: Leiutenant She was born into a family of Nagaybak Cossacks. In 1940 she graduated from the 7th grade of the incomplete Secondary School of the Nagaybak district. And in March 1941 she entered the service of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Chelyabinsk Region. On July 1, 1943, she was admitted to the state security department of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Ministry of State Security). In October 1943 she was enlisted as an employee in the Smersh counterintelligence staff as part of the operational department "Smersh" of the 90th Infantry Corps of the 43rd Army, Nadezhda Nikitichna was engaged in the search for German intelligence officers, saboteurs and spies in the front line; kept records of interrogations; delivered secret documents. She took part in the East Prussian operation, including the capture of the fortress city of Konigsberg. On April 24, 1945, the 43rd Army was withdrawn to the reserve of the 3rd Belorussian Front, regrouped in the Danzig, Gdynia, Neustadt area and from May 1 it was included in the 2nd Belorussian Front, as part of which it completed its combat path in Germany. She went through the entire war without injuries or concussions. Until 1952, she served on the territory of Poland and Ukraine, after which she was transferred to the reserve from the counterintelligence agencies of the Ministry of State Security with the rank of Leiutenant. Awarded: the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, Medals: "For military merit", "For the capture of Konigsberg", Zhukov, "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", as well as jubilee medals 20, 30, 40, 50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, "XXX years of the Soviet Army and Navy", 60, 70 years of the Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Since 1955, having returned to the city of Magnitogorsk, she served in the Internal Affairs Bodies of the city of Magnitogorsk. For twenty-seven years (until 1987) she was the head of the Address Bureau of the city of Magnitogorsk, about which several articles were published in print media (newspapers). At the same time, Nadezhda Nikitichna kept records of the transcripts of the meetings of the city executive committee and transcribed the transcripts. In 1987, she was awarded the Veteran of Labor medal for her long and conscientious work. The name of Nadezhda Nikitichna Tugaleva as a recon was included in several editions: Encyclopedia "Experience of Ethno-Confessional and Local Lore Dictionary", as amended by M. Glukhov, 1997, Kazan; Encyclopedia Tatarica, author-compiler MS Glukhov, Kazan, 1997, Internet-encyclopedia "Skullcap"; Network ethnocultural project KRYASHEN.RU, Bibliographic guide "Kryashenovedenie" Dunaeva TG, Kazan, 2008; Tatar electronic library Dunaeva T.G. She was buried in the cemetery of the city of Magnitogorsk.