Biography of Zina Portnova briefly

Leonid Aleksandrovich Golikov Partisan detachment, as she got to the house, she practically does not remember, but her grandmother soldered the girl with decoctions of herbs, and let her drink serum. The fact that Zina remained alive is just a miracle. But she could not stay in the village anymore, it was dangerous. She also did not want to expose her relatives.

Zina went to the forest to the partisans, and got into the detachment named after Clement Voroshilov. There she took part in the hostilities, and conducted sabotage work. Photo: Zina Portnova, along with everyone, she participated in the demolition of the power plant, arranged fires at the factory. Partisans destroyed many commodity trains that brought provisions and ammunition to the seized territory.

In the partisan detachment in the year, she joined the Komsomol. Zina's last task receives a new task, as his last one later became clear. The partisans became aware that the Germans shot most of the "young avengers". And they sent the girl to find out who remained alive, and whether they needed help. Toward her teenagers went along with her. Having met with the liaison, she received the necessary information, but upon returning, she was identified by a certain Anna Khrapovitskaya and was seized in the village of Mostishche with policemen.

When they led her into the village of Obole, the guys who waited for her were forced to leave the place by the road, and did not see that Zinaida was at the enemy, and could not help her. She was delivered for interrogation, the officer wanted to know who is connected in the village, and where the partisan detachment is located. The girl answered all questions in silence. Well, then a car drove along the way, and a fascist officer was distracted for a minute, looking out the window.

Zina grabbed a gun from the table, which he threatened her just a minute ago, and without hesitation shot a German.

The partisan Zina Portnova in the room was another fascist who tried to unfasten the holster to pull out the gun and kill the girl, but he did not have time, Zina shot his chest first. Then she ran out of the house, and at the entrance she also shot the sentry. Without turning around, she ran to the river, behind which there was a saving forest. But at this time there was an automatic line, the young partisan wounded in the leg.

She had another cartridge, and she wanted to shoot in her chest, but he gave an outbreak. Zina was captured, and this time they were taken for interrogation to Polotsk. Inhibitory torture lasted more than a month. The German tormentors jerked her bones and joints, broke their hands, then her eyes grunted to her. She was burned with hot iron, needles drove under her nails, they took revenge on her for the German soldiers who were killed and poisoned by her.

But the brave Komsomol member, did not give underground, and did not say about the place of location of the partisans. Her stamina causes only admiration and pride in such a young but courageous compatriot. Zina took an oath to love and defend her homeland, and she fulfilled it with honor. On the morning of January 10, the Germans waged a 17 -year -old, blind and absolutely gray girl to be shot.

She walked barefoot in the snow. It is not known for certain where the execution was, there is information that she was shot not in Polotsk, but delivered to the village of Goryany to be shot. Personal life by modern summer teenagers is difficult to understand and evaluate a feat committed by Zina. As a rule, they already have personal life, they are busy with social networks, or enjoy shopping.

Zinaida had nothing of this, but there were only years of deprivation, and in her life there was a feat, and the confrontation of the ruthless German invaders. She saw the flaming cities and villages, dying of hunger and fascist bullets of Soviet people, and then he herself accepted the martyrdom. According to the memoirs of the surviving participants of the "young avengers" and her partisan detachment, she was very sociable by the girl.

It was characterized as a very responsive and indifferent person. In the Avengers detachment, Zina was the smallest, and the only pioneer, all the other participants were already Komsomol members. One picture of that time has been preserved, a large -eyed girl is captured on it, with a dimple on the chin. The fate of Zina Portnova developed so that she did not recognize happiness in her personal life, she did not become her beloved wife, and did not recognize the happiness of motherhood.

With her feat, she proved that any person can become a hero, regardless of gender and age. To do this, you just need to have a brave heart and courage. She, along with other heroes-pioneers, Marat Kazye and Valya Kotik will forever remain in the hearts of Russian people. Vasily Ivanovich Smirnov, was deeply struck by the history of the young heroine, he was surprised by the stamina of the girl, and her feat prompted him to write the story, which he called Zina Portnova.

Vasily Ivanovich collected all possible memories of an eyewitness, and information about her relatives. In the book, he describes in detail the events that took place in her life, and makes us understand what she thought and dreamed of a very young child, but the implacable defender of our homeland. Her name was named after a street in her hometown of St. Petersburg, in the Far Eastern Shipping Company from a year, there was a ship, which proudly had the name Zina Portnova.In Belarus, in the village of Obole, they named the street in honor of the young partisan, also in the village the school bears the name of Zina Portnaya, and in the lobby she has a bust and a memorial plaque.

Recently, the Museum of the Underground organization "Young Avengers" was also opened. To this day on Nina Azolina Street, the house in which Zinaida lived. And on the highway, a commemorative wall was installed to the village, on which all participants in the underground group were listed, there is the name of Zinaida Portnova. She was officially reckoned with the "heroes-pioneers" of the Soviet Union.

In the year, her bas-relief was installed in the city of Ulyanovsk, on the Alai Geroi pioneers. Zina became the prototype of this of the characters of the Russian-Japanese-Canadian animated film, which was made in the style of fantasy and was called "First detachment." Graffiti contemporary artists, from the Hoodgraff art group, painted her portrait on the wall of the transformer substation in St.

Petersburg, but regardless of the resistance of the inhabitants and the opinion of the townspeople on August 25, it was ordered to paint it within three days.