Zimatova Praskovya Andreevna ( 1918 - 1941 ), a partisan intelligence officer, a member of the CPSU (since 1940 ). She was born in the village of Kharkino, Zubtsovsky District, Tver Region , after graduating from the Zubtsovsky Library Technical School in 1937, and worked as a library manager in the village of Lukovnikovo , which at that time was a district center.
| Zimatova Praskovya Andreevna | |
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| Date of Birth | 1918 |
| Place of Birth | der. Khar'kino, Zubtsovsky District, Tver Region |
| Date of death | November 24, 1941 |
| Place of death | der. Big Kapkovo Staritsky district of Tver region |
After the occupation of the village of Lukovnikovo on October 25, 1941 , she became the scouting officer of the Lukovnikovsky partisan detachment. Being a scout, she made her way to the regional center of Lukovnikovo , reconnoitered enemy fortifications, the number of the garrison, established contacts with the remaining members of the underground, gave them instructions from the underground district party committee. Repeatedly she was in the villages and the villages of the Iligorsk, Baygorovsky and Lukovniki rural Soviets , distributed leaflets, conducted conversations, obtained information about the enemy.
In November 1941, a small group of partisans, including Zimatova, was ambushed by the enemy. Cleverly disguised, the group managed to get out of the environment. However, she soon stumbled upon another division of the punishers and took the fight. In this battle, Simatova was wounded and captured. Neither persuasion nor torture could make Pani Simatova speak. Partisan stubbornly silent. Furious Hitlerite executioners pulled out her tongue, and then shot on November 24, 1941 in the village of Bolshoi Kapkovo [1] .
In January 1942, Pasha Zimatova was buried by partisans in a mass grave in the village of Lukovnikovo .
After the death of Pasha Simatova was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin . In 1968, a memorial plaque was erected on the school building in the village of Big Kapkovo, and in 1965 a street in its small homeland, in the town of Zubtsov, was named after Zimatova.
The feat of Praskovya Zimatova is dedicated to the poem “Silence” by S.I. Kirsanov ( 1942 ) and the poem “Courage” by A. D. Dementiev ( 1958 ).
Links
- Encyclopedia Tver region (inaccessible link)