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In 1941, she was in [[Oryol Prison]]. Olga Kameneva was shot on 11 September 1941 in the Medvedev forest outside [[Oryol|Orel]] together with [[Christian Rakovsky]], [[Maria Spiridonova]] and 160 other prominent political prisoners in the [[Medvedev Forest massacre]].<ref>Parrish, Michael; ''The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953''; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NDgv5ognePgC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69 Chapter 3 The Orel Massacres, the Killings of Senior Military Officers]; p.69;Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996</ref> This execution was one of the many [[NKVD prisoner massacres]] committed in 1941.

Olga Kameneva is the main protagonist in the novel, ''The Impossible History of Trotsky's Sister'' by Maree F. Roberts, published in June 2021. In the novel Olga is given a second, imagined life in Melbourne, Australia, after World War Two.