Zhenya

A cover name appearing in NKGB foreign intelligence cables from 1944 and1945 that were partially decrypted in the course of the American Venona operation and released during 1995-1996. At the time of their release, “Zhenya” was identified by Venona translators as Sonia Steinman Gold, an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from August 1943 to August 1947. The name Zhenya is a short form of the name Eugenia.