Nadezhda Ulanovskaya was born Esther Markovna Fridgant in Bershad in the then Russian Empire.
11 Facts About Nadezhda Ulanovskaya
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Nadezhda Ulanovskaya's father was a trader; her grandfather Nukhim Fridgant was a rabbi and possibly a descendant of a Hasidic tzaddik Reful.
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In 1923, under the name of "Maria Andreyevna Sorokina," Nadezhda Ulanovskaya worked with her husband in Hamburg for the Profintern, after which the Ulanovskys returned to Moscow.
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Nadezhda Ulanovskaya's husband was caught and imprisoned in a public spy scandal.
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In 1932, Nadezhda Ulanovskaya returned to Moscow, where, still in Soviet military intelligence, she studied at the Institute of Foreign Languages through 1941.
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Nadezhda Ulanovskaya worked as an English teacher at the Frunze Military Academy.
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Nadezhda Ulanovskaya worked with foreign correspondents with the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, including work in the Far East.
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On 21 February 1948, Nadezhda Ulanovskaya was arrested for treason, specifically the transfer of information about the Great Purge for Australian Godfrey Blunden for the 1947 book A Room on the Route published in the US.
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Nadezhda Ulanovskaya was locked in solitary confinement in the Lefortovo prison.
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In 1973, Nadezhda Ulanovskaya immigrated to Israel with her daughter Maya, son-in-law, and grandson.
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On 26 July 1977, in London, Ulanovskaya appeared on an episode called "The Soviet Intelligence Apparatus" on Firing Line, a talk show hosted by William F Buckley Jr.