Lyudmila Agranovskaya (29 February 1932 – 18 December 2022) was a

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mountain climber Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, ...

. Agranovskaya was born on 29 February 1932. She was the first woman in the USSR to receive the

Snow Leopard award The Snow Leopard award () was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to highly skilled mountain climbers. It is still recognized in the Commonwealth of Independent States. To receive this award, a climber was required to summit all five peaks withi ...

. She was a Honorary Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the RSFSR, and Honorary Citizen of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (2006). Agranovskaya died on 18 December 2022, aged 90.

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