 During the war she was promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant after demonstrating her abilities in battle, for which she was awarded the Medal for Courage on 30 May 1943.In the battle near the railway station in Dubrovensky, Belarus on 23 June 1944, she led her battalion through heavy enemy fire into an anti-tank ditch to the battlefield and was killed in action taking out an axis machine-gun bunker the same day.Her body was buried in a mass grave of deceased Soviet soldiers and partisans, and a monument was eventually constructed at the site.