Yekaterina Sergeyevna Katukova

Independent activity Marxism–Leninism 1913–2015 ○ Natural causes

Memoirist who shared Katukov's war and kept his memory alive

Born in 1913 into a Moscow working-class family. According to her memoir, in the 1930s she worked as a stenographer in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the secretariat of its Party Control Commission. After her first husband, Aleksei Lebedev, was repressed, she herself was imprisoned in 1938–1939. In the autumn of 1941 she met Mikhail Katukov, served through the war in his formation as a medical sergeant-major, and married him in 1945. After his death in 1976 she worked to commemorate him and his guardsmen: a memorial plaque, a street named after him and a museum of the guards tank crews. She wrote four books of reminiscences, among them Pamyatnoye (Things Remembered, 2002). She died in 2015 at the age of 101.