Natalya Durova
Natalya Durova - Soviet Russian circus performer and writer. She was born on April 13, 1934 in Moscow and died on November 27, 2007 in Moscow. She graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR, the Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Medal "Veteran of Labour", the Merited Artist of the RSFSR, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Medal of Zhukov, the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class, the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class, the Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", the Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the USSR State Prize, the Lenin Komsomol Prize, the People's Artist of the RSFSR, the Medal "For the Victory over Japan", the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
