Marionella Vladimirovna Korolyova (, nicknamed Gulya, 9 September 1922 – 23 November 1942) was a Soviet child actress. She was active in film in child roles between 1927 and 1936. Her father was a journalist and a script writer active in the Komintern. After the divorce, he stayed in Moscow, while Gulya's mother moved to Kyiv with the daughter, and married the composer

Pylyp Kozytskiy Pylyp Omelyanovych Kozytskiy ( uk, Пилип Омелянович Козицький; 23 October, 1893 – 27 April, 1960) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, musicologist, professor, head of the department of history of music at the Kyiv Con ...

. In the 1930s, Gulya married a nephew of the "people's enemy" G. Pyatakov, and gave birth to a son. In 1940, she enrolled in the Hydromelioration Institute. In 1941, she enlisted in the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

following

Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after ...

and was killed during the

Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later re ...

. Her descendants currently reside in Kyiv. In the 1960s, she was made one of the official Soviet martyrs for the Fatherland. Several objects were named in her honor. She was also the central hero of

Elena Ilyina Elena may refer to: People * Elena (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name * Joan Ignasi Elena (born 1968), Catalan politician * Francine Elena (born 1986), British poet Geography * Elena (town), a town in Velik ...

's novel "The Fourth Height". As part of the de-Sovietization campaign in Ukraine, streets named in her honor were renamed in the

2020s The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" shortened to "the '20s" and referred to as the twenties) is the current decade, which began on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic — the first ...

, on the formal grounds that her activity was not related to Ukraine. In September 2022 a street that was named after Korolyova in

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

was renamed to honor American

coloratura soprano A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills. The term '' coloratura'' refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component o ...

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

ethnicity

Kvitka Cisyk Kvitka "Kasey" Cisyk ( uk, Квітка Цісик; Квітослава-Орися Цісик, ''Kvitka Tsisyk''; April 4, 1953 Women of Ryazan ''Women of Ryazan'' or ''The Peasant Women of Riazan'' (russian: Бабы рязанские, Baby ryazanskie) is a 1927 Soviet silent drama film directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and co-directed by Ivan Pravov, starring Kuzma Yastrebitsky, O ...

'' (1927) *'' Doch partizana'' (1936) *'' Ya lyublyu'' (1936)

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* 1922 births 1942 deaths Actresses from Kyiv Soviet film actresses Soviet child actresses Soviet military personnel of World War II from Ukraine Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Ukrainian women in World War II {{USSR-actor-stub