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Alexey Botyan, a legendary Soviet-Armenian intelligence agent who rescued Krakow during the 1945 Nazi occupatiom, has died at age 103 in Russia. He passed away around 1:30 on Thursday, TASS news agency reports, citing the Foreign Intelligence Service.
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"...Colonel Alexey Botyan was a career intelligence officer. His contribution to saving Krakow from the Nazis is that he helped destroy a warehouse where they kept explosives meant to blow up the city center. Only in 2007, 62 years after the end of World War II, Botyan was decorated as a Hero of Russia for his role saving the Polish city."
3 fictional Soviet spy heroes and their true historical counterparts - Russia Beyond
"...Colonel Alexey Botyan was a career intelligence officer. His contribution to saving Krakow from the Nazis is that he helped destroy a warehouse where they kept explosives meant to blow up the city center. Only in 2007, 62 years after the end of World War II, Botyan was decorated as a Hero of Russia for his role saving the Polish city."