Overview
- Her granddaughter, Veronika Koldina, announced the death on VK and said the hospital notified the family at 8:45 p.m. local time on November 29.
- Sakharnova had been hospitalized since November 11 with suspected pneumonia and was later transferred to intensive care, according to the family.
- Relatives plan an open farewell on Wednesday at the crematorium on Shafirovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg.
- Family posts list her life dates as 25.11.1921–29.11.2025, while records cited by an advocacy group note a 1924 birth year in her passport.
- She gained a large online audience through her granddaughter’s TikTok account, sharing memories of prewar and besieged Leningrad, and had been honored with the medals For the Defense of Leningrad and Veteran of Labor.