Liya Abramovna Kantorovich — the first Soviet female hero in the great Patriotic war, who performed the feat and died earlier than Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, but did not receive any awards. She was born in 1920 in Moscow. According to other sources, she came to the Soviet Union with her family, when she was 17. According to the website geni.ru, she was the daughter of Abram G. Kantorovich and Yulia Markovna Nekhamkina, the half-sister of Artem Nikolaevich Nekhamkin. In the school №30 of Izhevsk, she got an A and was a social activist: a member of the Komsomol Committee, a squad leader of the class 6A, an editor of the school newspaper. She wished to become an Art historian. She was a 3rd-year student of the Institute of philosophy, literature and history (IFLI) in Moscow. With beginning of the war she entered the accelerated nursing courses and then became the nurse in the Red army. She married Alexey Sergeevich Kara-Murza. She was killed in August 1941 in area of the Western front. On September 7 there was a letter from the political division of the 30th army of Komsomol Committee of the Institute (now it’s keeping in the archive of the Central Committee of Komsomol), signed by the assistant chief of Komsomol Political department of the 30th army leading by the political leader Tzygankov. It says: to the Secretary of Komsomol organization of IFLI. Liya Kantorovich, a Komsomol member and a heroine of the Great Patriotic war against the brutal gangs of fascism, was brought up in your Institute. As a fervent patriot, a loyal daughter of Lenin-Stalin Komsomol, Liya joined one of the units of our army at the Western front as a nurse on August 1, 1941. From August 7 to August 20, Liya Kantorovich showed herself as a fearless, brave vigilante on the battlefield. She always appeared in the most dangerous and important areas of the battlefield. Together with her friends Katya Novikova and Olya Morozova, she was burning with one desire — to defeat and destroy the vile fascist reptile. On August 20, during the attack, Liya with the Commissar of the regiment H and the senior political instructor Guryanov moved to the front line and led the soldiers forward to the enemy. Inspired by the heroism of the fearless Guryanov and Liya Kantorovich, the solders successfully attacked the enemy. But during the battle Liya was severely injured by shell fragments and died among her comrades. Liya died as a hero. Eternal Memory!!!