Alla V. Taranina (Ruda)

Taranina Alla Viktorivna was born in 1989 in the city of Krasnohorivka in the Donetsk region. In civilian life, she worked as a hairdresser and did manicures. In 2014, she left her hometown and became a volunteer. She has been with the special forces unit of the National Guard of Ukraine "Azov" since 2014, almost from the beginning of its creation. Initially, she worked in the kitchen, and later she formalized her military service. She held the position of clerk. With the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, she was at the front - she participated in the battles for the city of Mariupol. She died on May 8, 2022, as a result of the Russians dropping an air bomb on the Azovstal plant. The four floors of the bunker in which Alla was located collapsed.