Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff
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Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff (phonetic: [nobél])(St. Petersburg, 9 October 1881 - Stockholm
Stockholm
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, 1973) was a Swedish-Russian physician and philanthropist and member of the Nobel family
Nobel family
The Nobel family is a prominent Swedish family closely related to the history both of Sweden and of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its legacy includes its outstanding contributions to philanthropy and to the development of the armament industry and of the oil industry...

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In 1912, she donated to the St. Petersburg's Women's Medical Institute, presently Pavlov St. Petersburg State Medical University, its Surgery Clinic. She was the head physician of the Branobel
Branobel
The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited,or Branobel , was an oil company set up by Ludvig Nobel and Baron Peter von Bilderling, in Baku, Azerbaijan...

 war hospital and was awarded the Finnish Winter War
Winter War
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...

Medal in 1940.
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