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Soviet intelligence officer Gohar Vardanyan, the wife of the Hero of the Soviet Union Gevorg Vardanyan, has passed away aged 93, the Armenian Embassy in Russia said in a released statement on Monday.
Gohar Vardanyan was companion in arms with her prominent husband for 45 years of service.

She was born in1926 in Gyumri. In the early 1930s, her family moved to Iran. At age 16, she entered her future husband Gevorg Vardanyan’s anti-fascist group along with which she lead an active intelligence work. She participated for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943.

Vardanyan and his wife worked as intelligence agents in several countries between the early 1950s and 1986.