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| Year of birth | 1914 |
| Date of arrest | June 1943 |
| Place of death | Kyiv |
| Date of death | 16 July 1943 |
| Location of the Stumbling Stone | Kozhumiatska street, 12B |
| Stumbling Stone installation date | 7 October 2025 |
| Research teams | The team consists of Olha Limonova, a history teacher at the Erudit Educational Complex in Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, and her students: Sofiia Naumenko, Diana Artenian, Olha Dibrova, Polina Bobrovska. The team set themselves a special goal: to honour the memory of those who tried to save Jews from death in an inhumane time but paid for it with their own lives. |
Klavdiia Vynokurova (Pianykh) was born in 1914.
Family: Klavdiia’s parents, Tymofii and Anastasiia Pianykh, and her younger sister Liuba lived in Kyiv at 68 Voznesenska Street (now approximately the end of Voznesenskyi Descent). Klavdiia was married to a Jew, Solomon Vynokurov, the couple had a son Volodymyr.
After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Klavdiia’s husband was drafted into the Red Army. During a retreat, after being wounded, he was captured and, in order to survive, pretended to be Ukrainian. He was held in the Darnytsia prisoner-of-war camp in Kyiv.
Klavdiia and her sister Liuba managed to locate him and succeeded in getting him out of the camp. Solomon returned to the home of his wife’s parents. After recovery, he and fellow former prisoners crossed the front line and rejoined the ranks of the Red Army. In 1943, he was killed near Novocherkassk in Rostov region.
Klavdiia Vynokurova served as a scout in the Soviet partisan unit Maksym and frequently carried out missions. At the time, her son Vova [Volodymyr] was only five years old, and her parents and sister Liuba took care of him.
Germans tracked Klavdiia down, arrested her at her home, and took her to the Gestapo. Vova was asleep in another room and, fortunately, went unnoticed. When he woke up, he slipped out through a different door into the yard. There, a neighbor, Anastasiia Dubko, saw him and took him in. She had been hiding Vova for two days.
Klavdiia Vynokurova was shot in July 1943, but her family only found out about this after Kyiv was liberated from Nazi occupation.
Klavdiia’s son, Volodymyr Vynokurov, graduated from a road transport technical school, served in the army, and became the chief mechanic at a motor enterprise. He married, raised a son, and passed away in 1978.
In 1995, Klavdiia and her parents, Tymofii and Anastasiia Pianykh, were awarded the title of the Righteous of Babyn Yar.
Links and documents:
Information about Klavdiia on the search portal of the Documentary Fund of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War [https://martyrology.org.ua/record/156800]
