The exploits of Zina Portnova. Life, feat and death of the pioneer Zina Portnova

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1942-1944
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Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin

Zinaida Martynovna (Zina) Portnova (February 20, 1926, Leningrad, USSR - January 10, 1944, Polotsk, BSSR, USSR) - Soviet underground fighter, partisan, member of the underground organization “Young Avengers”; scout of the partisan detachment named after K. E. Voroshilov on the territory of the Belarusian SSR occupied by the Nazis.
Member of the Komsomol since 1943. Hero of the Soviet Union

Biography

Born on February 20, 1926 in the city of Leningrad in a working-class family. Belarusian by nationality. Graduated from 7th grade.

At the beginning of June 1941, she came for school holidays to the village of Zui, near the Obol station, Shumilinsky district, Vitebsk region. After the Nazi invasion of the USSR, Zina Portnova found herself in occupied territory. Since 1942, a member of the Obol underground organization “Young Avengers”, the leader of which was the future Hero of the Soviet Union E. S. Zenkova, a member of the organization’s committee. While underground she was accepted into the Komsomol.

She participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the invaders.

Since August 1943, scout of the partisan detachment named after. K. E. Voroshilova. In December 1943, returning from a mission to find out the reasons for the failure of the Young Avengers organization, she was captured in the village of Mostishche and identified by a certain Anna Khrapovitskaya. During one of the interrogations at the Gestapo in the village of Goryany (Belarus), she grabbed the investigator’s pistol from the table, shot him and two other Nazis, tried to escape, and was captured. After torture, she was shot in a prison in Polotsk (according to another version, in the village of Goryany, now Polotsk district, Vitebsk region of Belarus).

Zina Portnova was officially ranked among the “pioneer heroes” of the Soviet Union.

You can find out more about the biography of Zina Portnova in the article:
Truth and fiction about the feat of Zinaida Portnova
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By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 1, 1958, Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin.

The purpose of this article is to find out how the tragic death of the young intelligence officer of the partisan detachment ZINA PORTNOVY is included in her FULL NAME code.

Watch "Logicology - about the fate of man" in advance.

Let's look at the FULL NAME code tables. \If there is a shift in numbers and letters on your screen, adjust the image scale\.

16 31 48 67 81 96 99 100 109 119 133 134 144 149 150 163 164 181 200 228 242 257 260 274 275
P O R T N O V A Z I N A I D A M A R T Y N O V N A
275 259 244 227 208 194 179 176 175 166 156 142 141 131 126 125 112 111 94 75 47 33 18 15 1

9 19 33 34 44 49 50 63 64 81 100 128 142 157 160 174 175 191 206 223 242 256 271 274 275
Z I N A I D A M A R T Y N O V N A P O R T N O V A
275 266 256 242 241 231 226 225 212 211 194 175 147 133 118 115 101 100 84 69 52 33 19 4 1

PORTNOVA ZINAIDA MARTYNOVNA = 275.

(v y) POR (kill) T (a) N (ap) OVA (l) + Z (astrelil) I + N (epopr) A (v) I (may) (be) DA + M (gnovenn) A ( i) (sm)RT(b)+(v)Y(arrows) N(ap)OV(al) (shot)NA

275 = ,POR,T, N,OVA, + Z,I + N,A,I,DA + M,A,RT, + ,Y, N,OV,NA.

DEATH DATE code: 01/10/1944. This = 10 + 01 + 19 + 44 = 74 = 10=FOR + 01=A +\ (19 +44)=63=DEATH\.

74 = 11-FOR(shot)A + 63-DEATH.

275 = 74 + 201-(mg)NOVENA DEATH.

201-(mg)NOVENA DEATH - 74 = 127 = SHOTS.

5 11 29 61 80 95 101 133 147 150 151 168 200
D E S I T O E Y N V A R Y
200 195 189 171 139 120 105 99 67 53 50 49 32

"Deep" decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

(evil)DE(ing)+(ras)S(trel)I(on)+(probi)TO (heart)E+(evil)YAN(ies)+(co)V(decision) (killings)A+P (asstrel) I (on)

200 = ,DE, + ,S,I, + ,TO,E + ,YAN, + ,B,A + P,I,.

Code for the number of full YEARS OF LIFE: SEVENTEEN = 129.

18 24 37 51 52 57 80 81 100 129
SEVENTEEN
129 111 105 92 78 77 72 49 48 29

"Deep" decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

(ras)S(tr)E(l) + M(instant) (ost)N(ovk)A (ser)DCA + (death)Т

129 = ,C,E, + M,N,A,DCA + ,Т.

Look at the column in the lower table of the FULL NAME code:

100 = SEVENTEEN(s)
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194 = 108-EXECUTED + 86-DIES

194 - 100 = 94 = DEATH.

Zina Portnova was born in Leningrad. After the seventh grade, in the summer of 1941, she came on vacation to her grandmother in the Belarusian village of Zuya. There the war found her. Belarus was occupied by the Nazis.

From the first days of the occupation, boys and girls began to act decisively, and the secret organization “Young Avengers” was created. The guys fought against the fascist occupiers. They blew up the water pump, which delayed the sending of ten fascist trains to the front.

Distracting the enemy, the Avengers destroyed bridges and highways, blew up a local power plant, and burned a factory. Having obtained information about the actions of the Germans, they immediately passed it on to the partisans.

Zina Portnova was assigned increasingly complex tasks. According to one of them, the girl managed to get a job in a German canteen. After working there for a while, she carried out an effective operation - she poisoned food for German soldiers. More than 100 fascists suffered from her lunch. The Germans began to blame Zina. Wanting to prove her innocence, the girl tried the poisoned soup and only miraculously survived.

In 1943, traitors appeared who revealed secret information and handed our guys over to the Nazis. Many were arrested and shot. Then the command of the partisan detachment instructed Portnova to establish contact with those who survived. The Nazis captured the young partisan when she was returning from a mission. Zina was terribly tortured. But the answer to the enemy was only her silence, contempt and hatred. The interrogations did not stop.

"The Gestapo man approached the window. And Zina, rushing to the table, grabbed the pistol. Obviously catching a rustle, the officer turned around impulsively, but the weapon was already in her hand. She pulled the trigger. For some reason she didn’t hear the shot. She only saw the German, grabbing hands on his chest, fell to the floor, and the second one, sitting at the side table, jumped up from his chair and hastily unfastened the holster of his revolver. She pointed the pistol at him. Again, almost without aiming, she pulled the trigger. Rushing towards the exit, Zina pulled the door towards herself. , jumped out into the next room and from there onto the porch. There she shot at the sentry almost point-blank. Running out of the commandant’s office, Portnova rushed like a whirlwind down the path.

“If only I could run to the River,” the girl thought. But behind them there was the sound of a chase. “Why don’t they shoot?” The surface of the water already seemed very close. And beyond the river the forest turned black. She heard the sound of machine gun fire and something spiky pierced her leg. Zina fell onto the river sand. She still had enough strength to rise slightly and shoot. She saved the last bullet for herself.

When the Germans got very close, she decided it was all over and pointed the gun at her chest and pulled the trigger. But there was no shot: it misfired. The fascist knocked the pistol out of her weakening hands.”

Zina was sent to prison. The Germans brutally tortured the girl for more than a month; they wanted her to betray her comrades. But having taken an oath of allegiance to her homeland, Zina kept it.

On the morning of January 13, 1944, a gray-haired and blind girl was taken out to be executed. She walked, stumbling with her bare feet in the snow.

The girl withstood all the torture. She truly loved our homeland and died for it, firmly believing in our victory. Zinaida Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The exploits of Zina Portnova USSR. The feat of intelligence officer Zina Portnova

On January 10, 1944, Zina Portnova (17 years old) was executed. During interrogation, she shot the investigator and 2 other Germans.

Zina Portnova was born on February 20, 1926 in Leningrad into a working-class family. She graduated from 7th grade. In June 1941, a girl came to the village of Zuya, near the Obol station in the Vitebsk region, for the school holidays. After the Nazi invasion of the territory of the Soviet Union, Zina found herself in occupied territory. She did not want to leave with the refugees, so she decided to stay in the city of Obol. In 1942, patriotic youth organized the Obol underground Komsomol organization “Young Avengers”. Zina Portnova immediately became a member, the leader of this organization was E. S. Zenkova, the future Hero of the Soviet Union. Later Zina joined her committee. She was accepted into the Komsomol while underground. The “Young Avengers” distributed and posted anti-fascist leaflets, and also obtained information about the actions of German troops for the Soviet partisans. With the help of this organization, it was possible to organize a number of sabotages on the railway. The water pump was blown up, which delayed the sending of a dozen trains of German soldiers to the front. The underground blew up a local power plant, disabled a couple of trucks, and burned a flax plant. Zina Portnova managed to get a job in a canteen for German personnel. After working there for a while, she carried out a cruel, but very effective operation - she poisoned the food. More than 100 Germans were injured. In response to this, the Nazis unleashed a wave of mass terror on the city. During the proceedings, Zina, wanting to convey to the Germans that she was not involved, tried the poisoned soup herself. Miraculously she survived. Portnova, in order to avoid arrest, had to go to the partisans. In August 1943, Zina became a scout for a partisan detachment. The girl takes part in the bombing of trains. The Obol underground was practically destroyed in 1943. With the help of provocateurs, the Gestapo collected all the necessary information and also carried out mass arrests. The command of the partisan detachment ordered Portnova to establish contact with the survivors. She managed to establish contact, but did not report this to the detachment. Having found out the reasons for the failure of the Young Avengers organization and already returning back, in the village of Mostishche Zina was identified by a certain Anna Khrapovitskaya, who immediately informed the police. The police detained the girl and transported her to Obol. There the Gestapo was closely involved with her, since she was listed as a suspect in sabotage in the canteen. During interrogation by the Gestapo, Zina grabbed the investigator's pistol and instantly shot him. Two Nazis came running to these shots, whom the girl also shot. The girl ran out of the building and rushed to the river in the hope of swimming to safety, but did not have time to reach the water. The Germans wounded Zina and captured her. She was sent to Vitebsk prison. The Germans had no doubts about the girl’s involvement in the underground, so they did not interrogate her, but simply methodically tortured her. The torture lasted more than a month, but Zina did not give up the names of other underground fighters. On January 13, 1944, she was shot in prison. On July 1, 1958, Zina Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Larisa Mikheenko - short biography

The future partisan was born on November 4, 1929 in Lakhta, a suburb of Leningrad, into a working-class family. She studied at Leningrad school No. 106. When the Soviet-Finnish war began, her father Dorofey Ilyich, who worked as a mechanic at the Krasnaya Zarya plant, was mobilized and did not return from the front. On Sunday, June 22, when the battles of the Great Patriotic War had already begun, she and her grandmother went on summer vacation to visit her uncle in the village of Pechenevo, Pustoshkinsky district, Kalinin region (today it is the Pskov region). Two months later, Wehrmacht troops entered the village, and her uncle became the village mayor. Since there was no way to return to besieged Leningrad, Larisa and her grandmother remained to live in Pechenevo.

In the spring of 1943, one of Larina’s friends, Raisa, turned sixteen years old, and she received a summons to appear at the assembly point to be sent to work in Germany. To avoid this fate, Raisa, Larisa Mikheenko and another girl, Frosya, went into the forest to join the partisans. Thus began Larisa’s combat career in the 6th Kalinin Brigade under the command of Major Ryndin. At first they were accepted reluctantly, because the leadership would like to see trained men in their detachment, not teenage girls, but soon they began to trust them with combat missions. Since Larisa, like her fighting friends, due to her age, could get close to military targets without arousing suspicion among the Germans, she served in the detachment as a reconnaissance officer. Thanks to the data she obtained in the village of Orekhovo, the partisans, knowing the location of the firing points and the rotation time of the sentries, were able to steal livestock from the Germans, requisitioned from the population for the needs of the Wehrmacht. In the village of Chernetsovo, having hired a nanny to care for a small child, Larisa collected detailed information about the German garrison stationed there, and a few days later the partisans raided the village. Also, during large crowds of people during church holidays, she distributed Soviet propaganda leaflets.

Utah Bondarovskaya. Bondarovskaya, Utah

Yuta Bondarovskaya (Bondarovskaya Iya V.) (January 6, 1928 (1928-01-06), Zalazy village, Leningrad Region - February 28, 1944, Roostoya farmstead, Estonia) - pioneer hero, partisan of the 6th Leningrad Partisan Brigade.

In the summer of 1941, Yuta Bondarovskaya came from Leningrad to a village near Pskov. Here she found the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Utah began to help the partisans: she was a messenger, then a scout. Dressed as a beggar boy, she collected information from the villages that the partisans needed.

Utah died in a battle near the Estonian farm of Roostoya.

She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and the medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War,” 1st degree.

Zina Portnova truth and fiction. Hero or traitor?

Let's start in order. The first pioneer hero, on whose example hundreds of Soviet children were brought up long before the Great Patriotic War, was Pavlik Morozov. Back in the years of glasnost, when information about Stalin’s policy of repression and mass dispossession became public, the story of this boy was immediately remembered and analyzed taking into account new facts. And then they quickly pushed it “to the margins of history”; this truth was too shameful. Yes, informing on your father is a terrifying fact, but if your loved one was an enemy, such an act is at least somehow justified. But, when it became clear that Timofey Morozov was not an enemy, but in fact a hero in the eyes of the public, saving his fellow villagers from the ax of unjust dispossession, the more or less justifiable motive disappeared, and the accents changed polarity. This raises a lot of questions. Suppose a boy, imbued with the ideas of a new ideology, decides to show consciousness, not caring about family ties and general condemnation. For a small village, which was Gerasimovka, the act was not typical for a teenager, but - taking into account new trends - it was quite acceptable. However, were the elder Morozovs really so angry with the boy that they decided to punish for betrayal following the example of Taras Bulba, killing at the same time, as an unwanted witness, Pavel’s younger brother, Fedya? At the same time, knowing full well that such a step would immediately attract the attention of the security officers and put the whole family under attack?

Valya Kotik is one of the teenage heroes who fought during the Great Patriotic War against the German occupiers. Valentin glorified his name as a courageous defender of his land and a faithful son of the Motherland.

Valya Kotik biography briefly

Valentin came from a simple peasant family. He was born in the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine. When the Germans occupied Ukrainian soil in 1941, Valya was a simple schoolboy. At that time the boy was eleven years old.

The young pioneer immediately took an ardent part in helping the Soviet front. Together with his classmates, Valya collected ammunition: grenades, rifles, pistols that remained on the battlefields and transported all these weapons to the partisans.

The children hid weapons in haystacks and transported them quite freely, because it did not occur to the Germans that children were also assistants to the partisans.

In 1942, Valya was accepted into the number of intelligence officers of the underground Soviet organization; the following year, 1943, the boy became a full member of the partisan detachment. Valentin Kotik went through a long and difficult two and a half years of war; he died from mortal wounds received in battle in February 1944.

Description of the exploits of Valentin Kotik

The hero Valentin Kotik was immediately remembered by his comrades for his courage and ingenuity. The boy accomplished his most famous feat in the fall of 1943: he discovered a secret radio line of the Germans, which they carefully concealed (later the partisans destroyed this line, leaving the Nazis without communication). Valentin took part in many partisan operations: he was a good demolitionist, signalman and fighter. He went on reconnaissance missions, and once in 1943 he saved the entire detachment.

It happened this way: Valentin was sent on reconnaissance, he noticed in time the Germans who had begun a punitive operation, shot one of the senior commanders of this operation and made a noise, thereby warning his comrades of the danger that threatened them. The story of the death of Valentin Kotik has two main versions. According to the first of them, he was mortally wounded in battle and died the next day. According to the second, the slightly wounded Valentin died during German shelling of evacuated Soviet soldiers. The young hero was buried in the city of Shepetivka.

Posthumous fame

After the war, the name Valentin Kotik became a household name. The boy was awarded orders and partisan medals. And in 1958 he was awarded the title of Hero. Pioneer detachments, streets, parks and public gardens were named after Vali Kotik. Monuments were erected to him throughout the Soviet Union. The most famous of all the monuments is the sculptural monument erected in 1960 in the center of Moscow.

Another monument is still located in the city of Simferopol on the Alley of Heroes, where there are sculptures of adults and children who heroically defended their Motherland during the Great Patriotic War. Valentin's feat was glorified in the feature film about the war "Eaglet", in which the main character, a courageous young pioneer, blew himself up with a grenade so as not to be captured by the Nazis.

1976 First class. Our Lydia Ignatievna tells us about her childhood. Childhood, where shots were heard. In her childhood, where she looked with horror at the fascists entering the hut. For us, small children, these stories seemed incredibly distant. But one story that our first teacher told us has sunk into my soul forever. I remember the treacherous tears that I hid from my neighbor at my desk, Lenka Postnikova. The story happened not far from us. After all, I then lived and studied in Belarus in the Vitebsk region. A story about a girl. whose name was Zina Portnova. I gleaned information from Komsomolskaya Pravda and other sources. June 12. After finishing her seventh year, Zina Portnova and her younger sister Galya boarded the train. Leningrad. Vitebsk station and the train goes to Volkovysk. The sisters’ father, Martyn Portnov, worked at the Kirov plant. And first I’ll tell you about Galya and Zina’s parents in the words of Zina’s sister, Galina, who still lives in the city of St. Petersburg.


- Parents are from Belarus, both are from the Vitebsk region. Dad is from the village of Stanislavovo: in 1914 he came to Petrograd to the Putilov plant, and worked there all his life as a simple worker. Mom is from the village of Zui, from the very Obol station where Zina and I lived during the war. I wonder how the parents met. My father was already 30 years old, but he still had not found his wife in Leningrad. And so he bought shoes, a dress, a veil for his future unknown wife and went home to look for a girl. I got one and another, but my heart wasn’t in anyone’s favor. Three days before the end of their vacation, they were driving with a friend through Zooey. And my grandfather - my mother's father - worked as a railway worker and lived with his family in a railway lineman's hut. And then my mother looked out of the window of this booth - she was 16 years old. As his father said, his heart sank. “Let’s go!” - he told his friend. And so he comes in - smart, in a suit, a chain with a watch peeks out of his pocket, from St. Petersburg. Mom stands barefoot in the doorway, rubbing her legs together. “Let me marry her!” - suggested to parents. And they just married off another daughter, they say: “What are you talking about, we don’t have any dowry.” Dad takes the matchbox and puts it on the table: “What you put in will be your dowry. I’ll arrive in three days!” Nobody believed him. But three days later several carts arrived. Mom was taken to church and to the train right that day. She then told her dad: “Thank you for finding me, how would I live without you!”
Dad was a very simple man. Hospitable. All our relatives from Belarus came to us for the New Year. How did you raise? I remember when something didn’t work out for Zina at school, he would say: “Baby, sit down. Two, three, four times - you can do anything, you will overcome everything.” Mom always behaved with dignity, was very restrained and quiet. She never interfered with anyone, never quarreled with anyone.

Belarusian relatives, uncle and aunt, live in a former manorial estate. Nearby there is a picturesque park, fountains with lions... After living in a Leningrad communal apartment, Zina and Galya think that they have gone to heaven. On the last pre-war evening, Uncle Kolya returns from work with a temperature of thirty-nine. The family is fussing. Wife Irina makes a compress, and niece Zina sets a thermometer. Around midnight everyone falls asleep. - I wake up in the morning. There’s no one in the nursery, I’m the only one,” recalls Galina Martynovna. - The dead silence is broken by crying behind the wall. I fly into the next room, see Aunt Ira and Zinochka, and ask: “What, Uncle Kolya is dead?” And they: “Jackdaw... The war has begun!” Aunt Ira is packing her things. He tears the velvet tablecloth off the table and wraps his clothes in it. Uncle Kolya calls and commands: “To the station, instantly!” They fly like a bullet to the station. They don't have time. The freight train is packed to capacity, overcrowded, and is leaving. A few hours later, it will be completely bombed by German planes... - We board the second train. We reach Vitebsk under bombing. Two days later the city is taken by the Nazis. We walk to the village of Zui near the Obol station, where our grandmother, Efrosinya Ivanovna, says Galina Melnikova. - Our parents with Zinochka, Anna Isakovna and Martyn Nesterovich, are in Leningrad at this time. They will learn about our fate only after two and a half years...


The sisters stay in the village hut with their grandmother along with her adult son Ivan. Uncle Vanya's suspicious guests attract the attention of Zina Portnova. It turns out that these are partisans. - Zina begins to become interested in the underground movement. You see, the Nazis are separating us from our parents, killing civilians, mocking the Soviet people... Zinochka cannot sit idly by, she wants to take revenge, continues Galina Martynovna.

According to the surviving witnesses of that war, who, by the will of fate, found themselves in occupation, the Nazis mercilessly bombed the columns with refugees: they were not interested in the local residents, whom they had practically written down as their slaves, leaving their homes.
The new order that the Germans established in the occupied territory could not please anyone. But among the Belarusians there were tens of thousands of people who not only could not calmly look at the atrocities of the representatives of the “superior race”, the “nation of masters”, but preferred to act - to fight this brown scourge. One of these caring people’s avengers was Zina Portnova, who from the very first days began to look for connections with the partisans or, at worst, patriots like herself. Often, such searches led to disastrous consequences due to the fault of provocateurs: the Germans in the hundreds grabbed and shot people who were seen in connections with the partisans or simply did not agree with their occupation policies. But Portnova was lucky - in 1942 she came across an underground Komsomol organization headed by Efrosinya Zenkova ( later Hero of the Soviet Union). It was here that Zina was accepted into the Komsomol in 1943. Much later they will be compared to the Young Guard. Zina was taken in immediately, despite the fact that she was the youngest, the only pioneer. She was very loved and respected: she was responsive, attentive, and affectionate. I was 8-9 years old then, and, of course, I knew nothing about underground work. I remember friends gathered at Zinochka’s place. Then they dropped me off on the rubble and said: “Jackdaw, we are having a party, if you see a policeman or someone suspicious, sing: “There was a birch tree in the field.” And I sang.




"Young Avengers". Activists are destroying the telephone connection between Polotsk and the German commandant's office in Obol, distributing reports from the Sovinformburo. Eight-year-old Galya has little idea what her sister is doing. But he completes the tasks. “Zina sends me to the neighboring village and asks me to bring from there a basket with eggs and ... a magnetic mine at the bottom,” recalls Galina Melnikova. - The most curious thing is that before the war Zina was a very modest and quiet girl. But, finding herself in extreme conditions, she became different.
Zina Portnova's group destroys a flax mill, a power plant, and a water pumping station. He blows up six cars with SS men. On a special assignment, Portnova gets a job in the officers' canteen at the SS school in a brick factory, carries the poison into the kitchen and throws it into a cauldron of soup. The cook doesn’t like something and orders Zina to eat a few spoons. She eats and is lucky. The soup is not mixed, the poison does not have time to disperse throughout the vat. The pioneer rushes to the village to see her grandmother, drinks a jug of milk. It's a miracle she remains alive. More than a hundred fascists died, among them were pilots who were soon to go on a combat mission to bomb Leningrad or Moscow. She saved thousands of lives of our people.
In the summer of 1943, the Germans decided to transport girls from the village of Obol to Germany. For hard work. - I cry and ask: “Zinochka, will they take us to Germany too?” “No,” she replies. “You and I will join the partisans!” says Galina Martynovna. No sooner said than done. In August 1943, Zina entered the partisan detachment named after K.E. Voroshilov as a scout. The platoon is based in the village of Kiseli (near the Belarusian-Lithuanian border). The sisters leave their native Obol.

Galina Melnikova admits that in the terrible and hungry years, Zina Portnova replaces her mother. Affectionate, attentive, gentle, she teaches Galya to read and write and repeats all the time: “Galka, no matter what happens, remember our address in Leningrad: Baltiyskaya, 24, Baltiyskaya, 24...”.
At the end of the summer of 1943, for the first time during the entire war, the sisters wrote home: “Dear mommy and daddy, Galka and I are alive, we are in a partisan detachment and together with you we are helping to beat the Nazi invaders.” The joy of the parents knows no bounds. Their children are alive! But the letter from Zina reaches the addressee very late - only six months later. Literally a few days later, Anna Isakovna and Martyn Nesterovich receive another message - from the commander of the partisan brigade Nikolai Sakmarkin. It contains three sheets of information about the death of Zina Portnova.
December 1943. Snowy forest, darkness. The partisans are going on a mission. Zina manages to run to Galya, who is hired to help in the hospital. She kisses me and says: “Galka, I’ll be back in three days.” Wait,” recalls Galina Martynovna. Zina is assigned to make a foray to the “Young Avengers” in Obol. A “rat” appears in an underground organization, and based on its denunciation, the Germans shoot thirty activists. Partisan Portnova must find out who the traitor is and establish contact with the surviving “avengers.” Zina goes to the village of Mostishche, communicates with the locals... One of the residents, a certain Anna Khrapovitskaya, recognizes Portnova and betrays her to the Germans. The policeman grabs the young fascist terror by the arms and leads him to the Obol commandant’s office. The path passes by the cemetery, near which Zina is guarded by her cover group - Ilya and Maria. Ironically, the guys, tired after a long march, at this fateful moment... are sleeping. - Ilyukha and Manya could have shot the German and escaped with Zinochka to the partisan detachment. But - such is fate... - says Galina Martynovna. Arrest. Goryan village, Gestapo dungeons. Interrogation. A girl with pigtails grabs an unattended pistol from the table and shoots at the unguarded investigator. Dead body. Two more Nazis were wounded. Zina tries to escape, but they shoot her legs, “knit her up” and take her to the Polotsk prison. Portnova is starved, tortured, hung upside down, but she does not betray her fellow partisans. At the beginning of January 1944, she was shot. A seventeen-year-old girl comes out to the wall completely gray-haired, but with a stubborn, rebellious look (this is evidenced by the stories of surviving partisans who visited the Polotsk prison). Galina Martynovna learns about the heroic death of her older sister much later. She runs away from the partisan detachment to the brigade headquarters and demands to know where Zina is. They don’t answer her. In 1944, Galya Portnova ends up in an orphanage in the Minsk region. From there she writes home - to that same Baltiyskaya street, house 24. The father comes to pick up his daughter. Already at home in Leningrad, she is given a letter to read about Zina’s death.

- Galina Martynovna, do you often remember your sister? - Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondents ask.
“Oh, guys, I don’t forget her... She’s extraordinary.” Zina told me whether she was scared to go on missions?
- No to me. Maybe she wanted to save me from worries?.. You see, then there was a time when almost everyone was thinking not about fear, but about how to repel the Nazis.
- When Zina did not come on time, I ran to the headquarters to the brigade commander with the question: “Where is my sister?” They didn’t want to upset me and said: she’s alive. They left it at home. For some time I was at the headquarters. And then, when the Germans began to carry out a large-scale operation against the partisans, I was sent to join the wounded on an airplane to the “mainland.” During that operation, only one out of ten partisans survived! My brother Lenya was blown up by a mine. Brother Kolya ended up in a German concentration camp - at the end of the war he was released... I was sent to an orphanage at Ozerishche station. I remembered my home address in Leningrad and wrote to Baltiyskaya, 24: “Dear mom and dad, I’m alive, come for me.” And the answer came: “Tick, dad is coming to pick you up!” One day we sat with the girls in the room, beat lice, everyone had their heads shaved. Suddenly the teacher comes in: “Galya, go out for a minute.” I started tying a scarf, and she: “No need, go!” She went out onto the porch. And there was dad... Afterwards we went to Leningrad. I remember the Baltic station, paper strips on the windows and broken houses. It seemed to me that the whole city was destroyed! Then I ran up my stairs, rang the bell and met my mother, whom I had not seen for three and a half years...
Galina Martynovna’s whole life is a struggle to preserve the memory of her sister. She carefully keeps all things associated with Zina.
But now Galina Melnikova’s desk is unusually empty. There is only one portrait of her sister. Galina Martynovna donated all memorabilia - photographs, newspaper clippings, documents - to the Zina Portnova Museum, opened at school No. 608. Galina Melnikova regularly meets with students and talks about her older sister.
AND AT THIS TIME
Bikers from St. Petersburg bought a house in the Belarusian village of Obol where Zina Portnova lived with her grandmother. Motorcyclists paid two and a half thousand dollars for a lopsided hut with a small plot of land. The head of the military-patriotic motorcycle club “Shtrafbat” Grigory Kudryavtsev told Komsomolskaya Pravda about this. The biker became interested in the fate of Zina Portnova three years ago. The famous underground worker lived in Leningrad on Baltiyskaya Street and died in Polotsk. Both places are associated with a motorcycle club. - Our “Penal Battalion” is located on Narvskaya. It's a three to four minute walk from there to Baltiyskaya. And in Polotsk we have a “transshipment base”. When we come to Belarus, we always stop there,” explained Grigory Kudryavtsev. The bikers found out that in the village of Obol there is a school named after Zina Portnova. We contacted the director and arranged a meeting. The motorcyclists were also shown the house where the partisan lived. The area was desolate. The building was leaning, the fence collapsed. “We found the owners of a private home and purchased it,” said Grigory Kudryavtsev. - We put up a fence, landscaped the area, and made some minor repairs. But there is still a lot to be done, for example, we want to restore the original environment inside the house.


The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was posthumously awarded to Zina Portnova on July 1, 1958. In 1962, her name was given to a new street in the Kirovsky district of Leningrad. Zina Portnova’s sister Galina Martynovna also has a lot of awards and medals. What is most dear to her is the “Son of the Regiment” badge. And Zina Portnova’s call sign was Romashka.....

They were ordinary boys and girls. But they were born at an extraordinary time. In a tragic time. And it made them become heroes. Children-Heroes... In memory of them... One of the names that one cannot help but remember is Zina Portnova. The girl who became posthumously Hero of the Soviet Union...

Zinaida Martynovna Portnova (Zina Portnova)
The young partisan is a member of the underground Komsomol and youth organization “Young Avengers”; scout of the partisan detachment named after K.E. Voroshilov in the temporarily occupied territory of the Belarusian SSR. She was born in the city of Leningrad (since 1965 a hero city, now St. Petersburg) in a working-class family. Belarusian by nationality. Member of the Komsomol since 1943. Graduated from 7th grade.

During the Great Patriotic War, while during the summer school holidays in the village of Zuya near the Obol station (now within the urban village of Obol, Shumilinsky district) in the Vitebsk region of Belarus, Zina Portnova found herself in temporarily occupied territory. In 1942, the young patriot joined the Obol underground Komsomol youth organization “Young Avengers” (leader - Hero of the Soviet Union E.S. Zenkova), and actively participated in distributing leaflets among the population and sabotage against the Nazi invaders.

Since August 1943, Komsomol member Zina Portnova has been a scout in the partisan detachment named after K.E. Voroshilov. In December 1943, she received the task of identifying the reasons for the failure of the Young Avengers organization and establishing contacts with the underground. Upon returning to the detachment, Zina was arrested. During the interrogation, the brave girl grabbed the fascist investigator’s pistol from the table, shot him and two other Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured and brutally tortured in January 1944 in the village of Goryany, now the Shumilinsky district, Vitebsk region of Belarus.

For her heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 1, 1958, Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1969, in the village of Zuya, on the house where Zina Portnova lived from 1941 to 1943, a memorial plaque was unveiled. On the Vitebsk - Polotsk highway, the Museum of Komsomol Glory and a school are named after her. Many pioneer squads and detachments in schools in Belarus bore the name of the young Heroine. A school in the urban village of Obol, a street in the hero city of Leningrad, and a motor ship are named after Zina Portnova. In the capital of Belarus - the hero city of Minsk, a bust of Zina Portnova was erected, and near the village of Obol there is an obelisk.

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The Gestapo man approached the window. And Zina, rushing to the table, grabbed the pistol. Apparently catching the rustle, the officer turned around impulsively, but the gun was already in her hand. She pulled the trigger. For some reason I didn’t hear the shot. I just saw how the Gestapo man, clutching his chest with his hands, fell to the floor, and the second one, sitting at the side table, jumped up from his chair and, with shaking hands, hastily unfastened the holster of his revolver. She pointed the pistol at this Gestapo man and again, almost without aiming, pulled the trigger.

Rushing to the exit, Zina pulled the door open, jumped out into the next room and from there through the half-open door of the corridor onto the porch. There she shot at the sentry almost point-blank. Running out of the commandant's office building, Zina rushed like a whirlwind down the path to the river.
"Just to run to the river."
And from behind you could already hear the sound of a chase...
"Why don't they shoot?"

Very close by, the lead-gray surface of the water rippled from the wind. Across the river the forest turned black.
She heard the sound of machine gun fire and something spiky pierced her leg. Zina fell on the river sand. She still had enough strength to rise slightly and shoot... She saved the last bullet for herself.
When they got very close, she decided it was all over and pointed the gun at her chest. She pulled the trigger. But there was no shot: it misfired. The fascist knocked the pistol out of her weakening hands.

The case of the Obol underground partisan was now handled by Gestapo men of a higher rank than in Goryany. Zina was immediately transported to Polotsk. She was interrogated by the executioners most sophisticated in cruel torture. For more than a month, Zina was beaten, needles were driven under her nails, and she was burned with a hot iron. After the torture, as soon as she came to her senses a little, she was again brought in for interrogation. They were interrogated, as a rule, at night. They promised to save her life if only the young partisan confessed everything and named the names of all the underground fighters and partisans known to her. And again the Gestapo men were surprised by the unshakable firmness of this stubborn girl, who in their protocols was called a “Soviet bandit.”

Zina, exhausted by torture, refused to answer questions, hoping that they would kill her faster. Death now seemed to her the easiest way out of torture. Once, in the prison yard, prisoners saw how a completely gray-haired girl, when she was being led to another interrogation and torture, threw herself under the wheels of a passing truck. But the car was stopped, the gray-haired girl was pulled out from under the wheels and again taken for interrogation.

At the beginning of January, it became known in the Polotsk prison that the young partisan was sentenced to death. She knew that she would be shot in the morning.
Once again transferred to solitary confinement, Zina spent her last night in semi-oblivion. She can't see anything anymore. Her eyes are gouged out... The fascist monsters cut off her ears... Her arms are twisted, her fingers are crushed... Will there ever be an end to her torment!.. Tomorrow everything must end. And yet these executioners got nothing from her. She swore an oath of allegiance to the Motherland and kept it. She vowed to take merciless revenge on the enemy for the grief he brought to the Soviet people. And she took revenge as best she could.

The thought of her sister again and again made her heart flutter. “Dear Galochka! You are left alone... Remember me if you remain alive... Mommy, father, remember your Zina.” Tears, mixing with blood, flowed from the mutilated eyes - Zina could still cry...

The morning came, frosty and sunny... Those sentenced to death, there were six of them, were taken to the prison yard. One of her comrades grabbed Zina’s arms and helped her walk. Old men, women and children had been crowding around the prison wall, surrounded by three rows of barbed wire, since early morning. Some brought a package to the prisoners, others expected that among the prisoners who were taken to work, they would be able to see their loved ones. Among these people stood a boy in worn-out felt boots and a quilted jacket torn to shreds. He didn't have any transmission. He himself had only been released from this prison the day before. He was detained during a raid while making his way from the partisan zone to the front line. They put him in prison because he had no documents on him.

A cart with a barrel drove along a street covered with white snowdrifts - they brought water to the prison.
A few minutes later the gates opened again, and machine gunners escorted six people out. Among them, in a gray-haired and blind girl, the boy hardly recognized his sister... She walked, stumbling with her bare blackened feet in the snow. Some black-moustached man supported her by the shoulders.
"Zina!" - Lenka wanted to shout. But his voice was interrupted.

Zina, along with other people sentenced to death, was shot on the morning of January 10, 1944 near the prison, on the square...

Epilogue

The Soviet people learned about the exploits of the young avengers fifteen years later, when the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was published in July 1958. For the exploits and courage shown during the Great Patriotic War, a large group of participants in the Obol underground Komsomol organization "Young Avengers" was awarded orders of the Soviet Union. And on the chest of the head of the organization, Efrosinya Savelyevna Zenkova, the Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union sparkled.

This high award of the Motherland was posthumously awarded to the youngest underground worker, the brave daughter of Leningrad, the legendary Romashka - Zina Portnova...

Near Obol, near the highway, among green young trees and flowers, there is a tall granite monument. The names of the dead young avengers are carved on it in gold letters:

Zinaida Portnova
Nina Azolina
Maria Dementieva
Evgeniy Ezovitov
Vladimir Ezovitov
Maria Luzgina
Nikolay Alekseev
Nadezhda Dementieva
Nina Davydova
Fedor Slyshenkov
Valentina Shashkova
Zoya Sofonchik
Dmitry Khrebtenko
Maria Khrebtenko

In Leningrad, on a quiet Baltiyskaya street, the house in which the legendary Romashka lived has been preserved. Nearby is the school where she studied. And a little further, among the new buildings, there is a wide street named after Zina Portnova, on which there is a marble wall with her bas-relief.
Years go by, but the memory of young heroes is forever alive.

Eighth-grader Zina came to the village from Leningrad for the holidays to visit her grandmother. There the war found her. Zina and other schoolchildren worked underground. They walked around the village, seemingly taking a walk, and obtained the most necessary information. Thanks to them, they managed to neutralize a large number of enemies. Then Zina became a scout. For a long time the Germans could not figure out the reason for their failures. A provocateur, a former school student, helped. He betrayed Zina and the other guys.

Returning from a mission, Zina was ambushed. A thin girl with two pigtails was arrested. When she was tortured, she was silent. Having failed to obtain any information from her, the girl was handed over to the boss.

The boss used a different tactic: he did not beat Zina, but spoke very kindly. His goal was to obtain information about underground partisans. He offered her chocolates and white bread, but the girl remained stubbornly silent. This torture with food lasted several days, but did not bring the desired results. Then he said that he would send her to her parents in Leningrad. At the mention of dad and mom, Zina’s heart sank painfully. She knew that her beloved city was under siege. And besides her parents, there was also a little sister left there.

Meanwhile, the boss pulled out a pistol and twirled it in front of the girl’s nose. He said that there was a small bullet in the gun that would put an end to the girl’s life. A car honked outside the window, the boss turned away. This was enough for Zina to take the gun. She shot point-blank, and also confidently killed another German who ran in at the noise.

The girl jumped out the window and ran, shooting back. The clip has run out of cartridges. A brave schoolgirl with two pigtails was shot without learning any information about the partisans.

The feat of Zina Portnova speaks of great love for the Motherland and teaches courage and the desire to ensure that there will never be war again!

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