Volkats Dina Solomonovna, commander of the trainer platoon of the 37th separate mine detector battalion, the only female officer of this service in all the armies participating in the Second World War.

At the age of 11, she attended the OSOAVIAKHIM military dog training section in Kharkiv. In April 1931, schoolgirl Dina Volkats began training and professionally working with military dogs.

Dina dreamed of becoming an actress. After finishing high school, she continued

To study at the OSOAVIAKhIM training center. After school, she attended OSOAVIAKhIM courses for Red Army dog handler instructors and entered theater school. In 1940, theater school student Dina Volkats completed the OSOAVIAKhIM courses with honors, received a service dog instructor diploma, and a military ID. She was awarded the rank of reserve commander. Her civilian occupation listed as actress. On June 22, 1941, junior reserve commander Dina Volkats was appointed in the emerging detachment of tank-destroying dogs.

Dina Solomonovna survived the terrifying months of the Battle of Kharkov, participated in the Battle of Barvenkovo, and was wounded. After the hospital, she was sent to advanced training courses in the Central School of Military Dog Training of the Red Army. 1943 marked the beginning of the practical use of mine detection dogs. Dina Volkats was included in the expert group for demining an airfield in Voronezh. After training at the Central School, Volkats was sent to the Kalinin Front, later the 1st Baltic Front, was the commander of a platoon of trainers of the 37th Special Purpose Regimental Squadron, and battalion commander Mazover. The idea arose of using a saboteur dog that could blow up a train and still survive. Such dogs were trained by the battalion commander, Volkats. A bag was designed so that the dog learned to drop the explosives herself. The bag that was so dreamed of in 1941 for tank demolition dogs. Dina Solomonovna trained a group of excellent specialists. On August 19, 1943, on the Polotsk-Drissa stretch, an enemy train carrying military equipment was blown up. The report states that Dina, the dog, planted the explosives. For preparing this operation, Dina Solomonovna Volkats was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.