The memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Natalya Venediktovna Kovshova is immortalized in connection with her heroic deed during the years of World War II. She died at a young age, defending her homeland, fully fulfilled her military duty.
The date of birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union Natalia Venediktovna Kovshova is November 26, 1920.
A family
The parents of the heroic girl were directly related to the events of the October Revolution of 1917. The maiden name of the mother of Natalia is Aralovets. She was well known among the youth of the Southern Urals as a hereditary revolutionary. Thanks to the memoirs of Nina Dmitrievna Aralovets-Kovshova, which she published in her memorable book, our contemporaries can learn about the life of a simple sniper girl who has become great.
Father Natalia Venediktovna Kovshova took part in the battles of the civil war. He was an active Bolshevik and his career went along the party line. His fate was complicated. Venedikt Dmitrievich Kovshov was a supporter of Trotskyist ideas, for which he was expelled from the Communist Party. Father Natalia managed to restore his party affiliation, but in 1935 he was arrested. The former communist was exiled to camps in Kolyma.
Biography
The first years of Natalia Kovshova’s life passed in Ufa, the capital of Bashkiria. After the family moved to Moscow, the girl received secondary education at the famous school No. 281. She dreamed of connecting her life with aviation and studying further at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Until 1941, the girl found work in the Orgaviaprom trust and was intensively preparing for entrance exams. However, the war, which began on June 22, 1941, crossed out the peace plans of the Soviet people. Natasha decided to go to the front and enlisted as a volunteer. She was sent to sniper courses, already in the fall of 1941, the girl was at the forefront.
She took part in the battle of Moscow, then fate threw a well-aimed sniper to the North-Western Front in the 528th Infantry Regiment. For courage and ability to hit sniper positions and machine gun crews of the Nazis, Natalya Kovshova had many marks in the award list. Her rifle ruthlessly destroyed enemies. By the spring of 1942, there were about two hundred enemies struck to death by the sniper girl. Natalya Venediktovna was an excellent mentor for the young replenishment and shared her secrets of accurate shooting with young fighters of the Red Army.
