Russia – Soviet: A female nurses Order of the Red Star awarded to Captain of the Medical Services and Attending Physician of the Medical Department of Evacuation Hospital No.1443, Captain of the Medical Service M.P. Nikitina for taking part in over 200 hundred operations and being instrumental in the speedy recovery of ill and wounded prisoners. Entitled to the Medal for the Defence of Leningrad she doubtless served during the long siege of the city.
Order of the Red Star, type 6, made by MZPP in September 1945, reverse numbered 2119760
Condition: Good Very Fine
Mariya Petrovna Nikitina was born in the village of Cherepet, Cherepetsky District, Moscow Oblast in 1900. A Russian national she attained a Higher education before later joining the Red Army.
This Order of the Red Star was issued to her by decree of the Leningrad Oblast on 22nd July 1945 as a result of her service as an Attending Physician of the Medical Department of Evacuation Hospital No.1443 and as a Captain of the Medical Service. It was awarded as a result of the following recommendation:
‘Working in the hospital since the beginning of the month of June 1941 in the position of attending physician, Senior Attending Physician Comrade Nikitina has proven herself to be a splendid worker. An obstetrician-gynaecologist by training, she quickly mastered general surgical skills. She has worked in the surgical section of the hospital for a long time, handing her assigned work outstandingly. From October 1943 to present, she has worked in the gynaecological section of the hospital. She personally conducted more than two hundred operations. Through her work, she has been instrumental in the speedy recovery of wound and ill soldiers and their speedy discharge into units of the Active Army. She is sympathetic and attentive to the wounded and sick. She commands great authority among both them and her comrades. She is disciplined and efficient.’
She would also be in receipt of a Medal for the Defence of Leningrad and a Medal for the Victory over Germany.
Post war she would be unemployed and living at Zvenigorodskya Street in Leningrad
