Biography
Chaplygina was born in 1922 in Kursk Oblast. She was a Komsomol member and studied from 1939 to 1941 in the Moscow Agricultural Institute. She was living in Crimea in 1941 working as a technical secretary for the local Komsomol office. She was evacuated to Sevastopol when the war began and worked as a nurse.
In December 1941, she was recruited by the North Caucasus Front Intelligence Department and given the code name “Tamara.” She completed radio school in Krasnodar and on 17 June 1942 was dispatched behind German lines on an intelligence mission. She was captured and recruited by a German counterintelligence unit and given the code name “Preobrazhenskaya.” The KGB accused her of compromising Soviet intelligence personnel in Krasnodar, Yevpatoriya, Anapa, and Novorosiysk. No further information is available about her whereabouts after her recruitment by German counterintelligence.[i]
In December 1941, she was recruited by the North Caucasus Front Intelligence Department and given the code name “Tamara.” She completed radio school in Krasnodar and on 17 June 1942 was dispatched behind German lines on an intelligence mission. She was captured and recruited by a German counterintelligence unit and given the code name “Preobrazhenskaya.” The KGB accused her of compromising Soviet intelligence personnel in Krasnodar, Yevpatoriya, Anapa, and Novorosiysk. No further information is available about her whereabouts after her recruitment by German counterintelligence.[i]
Notes
- [i] 1979 KGB Wanted List, person number 742.