 Despite attempts to save her, Shanina died the following day near the Richau estate (later a Soviet settlement of Telmanovka), northwest of the East Prussian village of Ilmsdorf ().Nurse Yekaterina Radkina remembered Shanina telling her that she regretted having done so little.By the day of Shanina's death the Soviets had overtaken several major East Prussian localities, including Tilsit, Insterburg and Pillau, and approached Königsberg.