Zinaida Portnova

1944) was a Soviet teenager, partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union

Monument

to Zinaida Portnovа - Soviet pioneer-hero. Former pioneer camp "Scarlet Sails" village Berry, near the city of Togliatti, Russia

village of Obol in the Vitebsk region, a Wehrmacht officers

retraining center was located. Artillerymen, pilots and tankers from near Leningrad, Novgorod, Orel gathered here.

None of these important Germans, dashing officers who went through dozens of battles, hung with crosses and medals, could not have imagined that death awaits them not on the battlefield, but here in Oboli in the image of a smiling Belarusian girl. The girl's name was Zina Portnova.

At first, she was not allowed to get close to

the stoves, where food was prepared, Zina washed the floors, carried out slops and did other dirty work. Then the dishwasher fell ill. Zina, who by that time was already quite familiar in the kitchen, was allowed to wash the boilers and plates. And then the day came when Zina was able to seize the moment and pour a huge dose of rat poison into a saucepan with soup. Two days later, almost a hundred Germans, selected fighters from among the best officers, were buried at the local cemetery.

widespread malaise in the dining room after lunch, and the

doctor diagnosed “poisoning”. The chief cook, frightened by the scale of the sabotage, and well aware of what would happen if his oversight was discovered, swore and swore that he didn’t allow any of the locals to come to the pots. However, to check, a new dishwasher was ordered to eat soup. Zina, without blinking an eye, scooped up a spoon and swallowed, then again and again. The girl survived.

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. At one of the Gestapo’s interrogations in the village of Goryany, grabbing the investigator’s gun from the table, shot him and two other Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured. After that, she was tortured for more than a month, trying to get any information about the partisans. On the morning of January 10, 1944, she was shot in the prison of the city of Polotsk

the Soviet Union by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. She also

received the Order of Lenin. In 1969, the village of Zuya dedicated a commemorative plaque in her honour.[2] She also had numerous Young Pioneer groups named in her honour.[3]
Portnova has had many school teams and groups named after her, as well the museum to the Komsomol, situated on the highway between Polotsk and Vitebsk, and a school in St. Petersburg. There are two monuments to her, a bust in Minsk and an obelisk in the village of Obol.[2]

st. Zina Portnova, 60 St. Petersburg
Dedicated to Zinaida Portnova,

1978, an art labeled envelope of the USSR

Hero of the Soviet Union

Order of Lenin