Tusnolobova-Marchenko, Zinaida Mikhailovna

She was born on November 23, 1920 in the Shevtsovo farm of the Polotsk district of the Vitebsk province (now the Rossonsky district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus ) in the Morozov peasant family. Russian ^[1] .

In the 1930s, his father, fearing reprisals, went to Siberia and changed his surname. His brother, Morozov Semyon Mikhailovich (1890-1937), a World War I disabled person, the St. George Knight, chairman of the Second Five-Year Plan collective farm of the Rossonsky District was repressed ^[2] .

Education is incomplete secondary. She worked in the Leninsk-Kuznetsk Kemerovo region laboratory chemist trust "Leninskugol" ^[1] .

In the Red Army since April 1942. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942. She graduated from nursing courses ^[1] .

On November 6, 1942, for the rescue of 26 soldiers from July 19 to July 23, a nurse of the 849th rifle regiment of the 303rd rifle division of the 60th army of the Voronezh front guard, the foreman of the medical service Z. Tusnolobov, was introduced as regiment commander to the Order of the Patriotic War I degree , but was awarded the Order of the Red Star ^[3] . For the same feat, some time later, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In just 8 months at the front, it took out 123 wounded from the battlefield ^[1] .

In February 1943, in the battle for the Gorshechnoye station in the Kursk Region, Z. M. Tusnolobova tried to help the wounded platoon commander. While she was crawling to the lieutenant, she herself was seriously injured: her legs were broken. At this time, the Germans launched a counterattack. Z. M. Tusnolobova tried to pretend to be dead, but one of the German soldiers noticed her, and with blows of her boot and butt tried to finish off the nurse ^[4] .

At night, a nurse who showed signs of life was discovered by a reconnaissance group, transferred to the location of the Soviet troops, and on the third day was taken to a field hospital. From severe frostbite of all limbs, gangrene developed. For several months of treatment she underwent eight operations that saved her life. But due to frostbite, arms and legs were amputated ^[4] .

The author of a letter of appeal to the soldiers of the 1st Baltic Front (May 1944). Z. M. Tusnolobova received more than 3,000 responses to it, and soon the slogan “For Zina Tusnolobova!” Appeared on the sides of many Soviet tanks, aircraft and guns. In particular, on the fuselage of the plane of the Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Andreev there was an inscription - “For Zina Tusnolobova”.

After the war, the disabled person of the Great Patriotic War of the first group Z. M. Tusnolobova lived in Polotsk , worked as an announcer of a local radio, was a member of the CPSU city ​​committee, and conducted community work ^[1] .

In the fall of 1965, the International Committee of the Red Cross awarded Z. M. Tusnolobova-Marchenko the Florence Nightingale Medal , so she became the third Soviet nurse to receive this honorary award ^[1] .

She died on May 20, 1980 in Polotsk ^[1] .

Husband - Joseph Petrovich Marchenko, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, lieutenant. After the war, he worked in the Pishchevik artel as a shop manager, chief engineer, and then as a director. They have two children ^[1] :

• Son Vladimir (born 1951) - worked as a fitter, served in the 1970-1972 year in the missile forces. After the army he returned to his former place of work. He graduated from the institute in 1980. Candidate for master of sports in water skiing. 32 years working in the gas sector. For 2010 - Deputy Director of Gorgaz . Granddaughter - Julia (born 1976), a civil engineer, lives and works in Minsk .
• Nina's daughter (born 1959) is a seamstress by education, a housewife. Raised two sons.

• Hero of the Soviet Union (December 6, 1957, Golden Star medal No. 10842; at the request of the Military Medical Museum of the USSR Ministry of Defense, party and Soviet organizations of the city of Polotsk);
• Order of Lenin (December 6, 1957);
• Order of the Red Banner ;
• Order of the Red Star ;
• medals, including:
  • Florence Nightingale medals of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1965).

Honorary citizen of the city of Polotsk ^[1] .

• The streets in Leninsk-Kuznetsk and Polotsk, as well as the Polotsk Medical College , are named after Zinaida Mikhailovna Tusnolobova-Marchenko, as well as the museum-apartment of the heroine ^[1] .
• In the village of Novopokasma, Leninsk-Kuznetsk district , where she studied, a school is named after her.
• In the village of Gorshechnoye, Kursk region, where she was injured, a street is named, next to which is the central district hospital.
• In Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region, her name is from the gardens of school No. 33.
• The stand dedicated to the courage of Z. M. Tusnolobova-Marchenko is located in the museum-apartment of N. A. Ostrovsky "Overcoming" in the house No. 14 on Tverskaya Street in Moscow ^[1]
• In 1992, an envelope dedicated to Tusnolobova was issued in Belarus.

• Tusnolobova-Marchenko Zinaida Mikhailovna // Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
• Arsenin N. Courage // Heroes: Essays on Women - Heroes of the Soviet Union / ed. L. F. Toropov; foreword E. Kononenko . - Vol. 2. - M .: Politizdat , 1969 .-- 463 p.
• Tusnolobova-Marchenko Zinaida Mikhailovna / Kuzmin M.K. Medics — Heroes of the Soviet Union. - 2nd ed., Rev. and add. - M .: Medicine, 1970. - S. 192-195. - 233 p.
• Gritsan N.I. A special case. - Minsk, 1964.
• Lipsky V.S. - Kemerovo, 1982.
• Satrapinsky F.V. Military doctors - Heroes of the Soviet Union / Central Military Medical Administration of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR; open ed. E. F. Selivanov. - L .: Military Medical Museum of the USSR Ministry of Defense , 1975. - P. 27-29. - 103 p.
• Frontline workers. - M .: Military Publishing , 1984 .-- S. 30-40.

Ufarkin N.V. Tusnolobova-Marchenko, Zinaida Mikhailovna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• For Zina Tusnolobova!
• It was very difficult for her, but she did not lose heart (neopr.) . Russian Red Cross. Date of treatment June 26, 2014. Archived March 4, 2016.
• Svetlana Samodelova. The story of a real superman (neopr.) . Moscow Komsomolets (April 21, 2010). Date of treatment June 26, 2014.
• Fedor Dvirnik. For eight months, Zina removed 128 wounded soldiers from the battlefield (inaccessible link) .