Maslovskaya voluntarily joined the Red Army in 1941 as a member of the Red Cross and was assigned to the 71st tank battalion. After her unit was surrounded by enemy forces in Vitebsk she was assigned to travel behind enemy lines in
Pastavy. From 24 December 1942 to 4 July 1944 she was a member of the Komsomol Provincial District Committee, after which she worked at a factory that made
SS uniforms, where she engaged in occasional sabotage before organizing an armed attack of partisans that killed 90 German soldiers including 23 members of the SS and a general. Many of the partisans that took part were defectors from the German-established "
Russian Liberation Army" that conscripted in occupied territories, and after the factory attack they fought in attacks on garrisons in Shemetovo, Svyattyans, Postavy and Svit. After multiple successful attacks 230 personnel from different Red Army battalions with the
Guards designation were transferred to partisan units. From then on until 1944 she was put in charge of the Voroshilov Komsomol partisan detachment as an assistant commissar; in the course of her duties she killed dozens of Axis soldiers, destroyed three trains and 240 railroad tracks, carried 23 wounded partisans off the battlefield, and participated in raids on enemy military installations in Zalesye, Kamai, Lintupah, and Myadel. During a raid on one garrison she threw a grenade into a bunker before opening fire on barracks; 50 German soldiers were killed in that operation. For her partisan activities she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union after the war on 15 August 1945. == Later life ==