Zina Portnova A-3 Leningrad Patriotic war Poster

Orgin: Leningrad, USSR. 1972
State: early antique
Size: A-3 / 30x42cm

A-3 size original poster of Pioneers & Heroes
Featuring
Zinaida Martynovna ( Zina ) Portnova ( February 20 , 1926 , Leningrad - January 10, 1944 , Polotsk or the village of Goryany , Polotsk district , Vitebsk region ) - pioneer hero , Soviet underground worker , 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. Hero of the Soviet Union (1958).

Born on February 20 , 1926 in the city of Leningrad in a working-class family. Belarusian by nationality . Graduated from 7th grade (1941).

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 Nazis attacked the USSR, Zina Portnova found herself in occupied territory. Since 1942, he was a member of the Obol underground organization “ Young Avengers ,” whose leader 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 All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League .

According to Soviet historiography, she participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the invaders. While working in the canteen of a retraining course for German officers, at the direction of the underground, she poisoned the soup (more than a hundred officers died). The Nazis began searching for the perpetrators, suspecting everyone. Zina also came under suspicion, whom the Germans almost force-fed with that same soup. She didn’t remember how she got to the porch of her grandmother’s house, but she gave her herbal infusions and whey, and as a result, the girl remained alive. However, after what happened, it was mortally dangerous for her to remain in the village, and Portnova was transferred to a partisan detachment.

Since August 1943, a scout in the partisan detachment named after K. E. Voroshilov. 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 (now the Polotsk district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus ), the investigator threatened her with a pistol, which had “one” cartridge, Zina bravely remained silent, suddenly cars drove into the yard and the investigator was distracted. Then she grabbed the investigator’s pistol from the table, shot him and two other Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured near the river. 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 (according to another version, in the village of Goryany).

Awarded:
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 1, 1958, Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) and awarded the Order of Lenin .
Памятная доска в Санкт-Петербурге. Улица Зины Портновой

In memory;

Memorial plaque in St. Petersburg . Zina Portnova Street
Мемориальная доска ул. Зины Портновой, д.60 Санкт-Петербург
Memorial plaque st. Zina Portnova , 60 St. Petersburg
Посвящённый Зинаиде Портновой художественный маркированный конверт СССР 1978 года
Artistic marked envelope of the USSR 1978 dedicated to Zinaida Portnova