Biography Kosmodemyans'koi Zoe Anatolyevna
Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya (Tanya) (13/09/1923 – 11/29/1941), the Soviet partisan, the heroine of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
Born in a family servant. Member of the Komsomol in 1938. Studied at the 201-th secondary school in Moscow. In October 1941, being a student of grade 10, a volunteer went to the partisan detachment.
In the village Obukhovo near Naro-Fominsk, with a group of Young Communists – the guerrillas crossed the front line in the occupied territory of the German occupiers.
In late November 1941 in the village Petrischeva in a combat mission was seized by the Nazis. Despite the horrific torture and abuse executioners did not betray his comrades, had not opened his real name, who called Tanya.
November 29, 1941 was executed.
February 16, 1942 Kosmodemyans'koi posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Devotion to the socialist motherland, loyalty to the cause of communism made the name of Lenin Komsomol ward legend.
Kosmodemyans'koi dedicated many works of Soviet poets, writers, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and its named after the streets of many cities of the USSR. At the Minsk highway near the village of Petrischeva Kosmodemyans'koi monument (sculptor A. Ikonnikov and VA Fedorov).
Since 1942 the tomb Kosmodemyans'koi located in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow on the site of initial burial in the village Kosmodemyans'koi Petrischeva a memorial slab.
Lit.: Folk heroine. (Collection of materials about Zoe Kosmodemyans'koi), M., 1943: Kosmodemyanskaya LT, The Story of Zoya and Shur, M., 1966.