Voskresenskaya, Zoya Ivanovna

Born April 15 (28), 1907 in the family of an assistant to the chief of the Uzlovaya railway station (now the Tula region ), according to other sources, in Aleksin .

At the age of 14, she became the librarian of the 42nd battalion of the Cheka of the Smolensk Province , in 1923 - political instructor in the juvenile delinquent colony, in 1928 - transferred to the Zadniprovsky District Committee of the RCP (B) Smolensk .

In 1928 he moved to Moscow and from August 1929 he began to work in the Foreign Department of the OGPU - in foreign intelligence. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1929.

The first trip to intelligence work - in Harbin , where she was registered as a secretary of the Soyuzneft syndicate, for two years successfully carried out responsible intelligence tasks during the most intense struggle on the CER .

Since 1932, she headed the Foreign Department of the OGPU Permanent Mission in Leningrad .

Later she was in intelligence work in Latvia , Germany and Austria .

From 1935 to 1939 - deputy resident of the NKVD intelligence in Finland . Officially performed the duties of the head of the Soviet representative office of VAO Intourist in Helsinki . In 1936, B. A. Rybkin (Yartsev, Kin) came to Finland as a resident under cover of the post of consul (later the second secretary of the embassy). Initially, the resident and his deputy did not have business relations. “We argued on every occasion! - remembered Zoya Ivanovna. “I decided that we would not work together, and asked the Center to recall me.” In response, it was ordered to help the new resident get on track, and then return to this issue. But ... there was no need to return. “Six months later, we asked the Center for permission to get married ...”

Later Voskresenskaya-Rybkina interacted with P. A. Sudoplatov (in the future, Lieutenant General , head of the special department of the NKVD ).

She returned to Moscow just before the war with Finland and took up analytical work. Has become one of the main intelligence analysts . Important information flocked to her, including from representatives of the famous “Red Chapel” - such as “Petty Officer” ( Harro Schulze-Boysen ) and “Corsican” ( Arvid Harnak ). Since the fall of 1940, she participated in polls, and after the start of World War II and preparations for the transfer to the neutral countries of A. S. Nelidov .

At the beginning of World War II she was engaged in selection, organization. training and transfer of reconnaissance and sabotage groups to the front line.

From late 1941 to March 1944, she was in Sweden as a press secretary for the Soviet embassy with her husband, who worked as an adviser to the embassy and was a resident. The ambassador to Sweden was A. M. Kollontai , who worked closely with her. Both, each in its own way, contributed to the fact that on September 20, 1944, Finland broke the alliance with Nazi Germany and signed a truce with the Soviet Union.

The residency organized monitoring of German military transit through Sweden, the nature of the cargo transported by sea between Sweden and Germany was recorded. In northern Sweden, in the border zone with Finland, an agent group registered the transfer of German military equipment and military units to Finland. In the southern ports of Sweden, another agent group observed mutual German-Swedish shipments.

After returning to Moscow, she was engaged in analytical work in the central intelligence apparatus, rose to the head of the German department, went on a business trip to Berlin with an operational mission.

On November 27, 1947, Voskresenskaya-Rybkina’s husband, Colonel B. A. Rybkin, died in a car accident near Prague in the line of duty.

In 1953 , after the arrest of P. A. Sudoplatov, she defended him.

In 1953, she was dismissed from intelligence and, at her urgent request, to leave her with the state security organs to achieve retirement age in any position, in 1955 she was sent to Vorkutlag (one of the GULAG camps) as the head of the special unit, where she served for about two years.

In 1956 she retired with the rank of colonel of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and took up literary activities.

In 1965 she was admitted to the USSR SP . Only for the period from 1962 to 1980, her books were published with a circulation of 21 million 642 thousand copies ^[2] .

Voskresenskaya has established herself in literature as a writer of an acute political orientation and an artist who raises moral issues. The books of Voskresenskaya raise interest in history, its heroic and tragic pages, in the images of real historical figures ^[3] .

Already seriously ill, she found out that she was "declassified." And when much became clear over the past years, Zoya Ivanovna decided to share with readers some episodes of her life, taking the time interval immediately preceding the Great Patriotic War and covering certain aspects of her work during the war years. She wrote the book “Now I Can Tell the Truth” (From the Memoirs of a Scout). However, Zoya Voskresenskaya did not even see a signal copy of her book. She died on January 8, 1992 , and the book in the publishing house "Olma-Press" was published in December 1992.

Z. I. Voskresenskaya was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery .

Voskresenskaya called Ivan Chichaev her "godfather" in intelligence ^[4] .

Family

• Brothers - Nicholas (born 1910) and Eugene (born 1913)
• First husband (1927-1929) - Vladimir Kazutin, Komsomol and party activist (divorce)
  • Son - Vladimir Vladimirovich Kazutin (b. 1928)
• The second husband is Boris Arkadyevich Rybkin (1899-1947), a Soviet intelligence officer and diplomat.
  • Son - Alexei Borisovich Rybkin (1944-2009).

• 1962 - Through the Ice Mist,
• “Zoyka and her uncle Sanka” - Moscow: Detgiz, 1962
• "Meeting" - Moscow: Detgiz, 1963
• “Mother’s Heart” - M.: Children's Literature, 1965
• "Antoshka" - M.: Children's Literature, 1966
• "Morning" - Moscow: Children's Literature, 1967
• "Secret" Stories about the Ulyanov family. - M .: Children's literature, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1984
• “A Girl in a Stormy Sea” - Moscow: Children's Literature, 1969
• “Dear Name” - M .: Children's Literature, 1970
• "Password -" Hope "" - M .: Children's literature, 1972
• 1973 - Mouth Front, Daddy Cherry
• Collected Works in 3 vols. - M.: Children's Literature, 1974-1975. - 300,000 copies.
• A word about the Great Law. - M .: Children's literature, 1977, 1978, 1980
• Hope. - M .: Children's literature, 1979
• 1980 - "Tales and Stories of Lenin",
• “Daddy's Cherry” - M .: Children's Literature, 1980. - 16 pp. - 2,000,000 copies,
• "Consul" novel in two books - M .: Children's literature, 1981. - 600 pages. - 200,000 copies.
• Grandma Paraskeva. - M .: Children's literature, 1980, 1983
• "Nest on the balcony" - M .: Children's literature, 1981
• On this memorable May day. - M .: Children's literature, 1981
• Moon Shadow. - M .: Children's literature, 1983
• 1984 - "Hope", "Petya Mockingbird"
• Igor and Sivka-burka. - M.: Kid, 1990
• "Now I can tell the truth." - M .: Republic, 1993 .-- 224 p. - 35,000 copies. - ISBN 5-250-02042-9 .
• "Under the pseudonym Irina: notes of a scout." - M .: Sovremennik, 1997. - 350 p. - ISBN 5-270-01829-2 .

Scripting

• 1965 - The heart of the mother (with I. M. Donskoy)
• 1966 - Mother's Fidelity
• 1973 - Hope

Film about Z. I. Voskresenskaya

• 2011 - Fights. Two lives of Colonel Rybkina (dir. Leonid Belozorovich )

• USSR State Prize (1968) - for the script and literary basis of the film "Mother’s Heart" (1965)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980) - for the book "Hope"
• Order of Lenin (05/06/1977)
• Order of the October Revolution (08/12/1987)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (1985)
• two orders of the Red Star
• medal "For Military Merit" and others
• Honored Worker of the NKVD (1940)

• In 2017, the name in Zoya Voskresenskaya was named a street in Moscow (the district of Begovoy SAO ) ^{[5] [6]} .

• Trubina L. A. Voskresenskaya Zoya Ivanovna // Russian children's writers of the XX century: Bibliographic dictionary. - M .: Flint ; Nauka , 1997 .-- pp . 106-110 . - ISBN 5-02-011304-2 .
• Zoya Voskresenskaya, Eduard Sharapov. The mystery of Zoe Voskresenskaya. M., Olma-Press, 1998, ISBN 5-87322-877-9 .

• Voskresenskaya-Rybkina Zoya Ivanovna on the SVR website
• Great scout
• Rybkina-Voskresenskaya - foreign intelligence officer, writer
• Colonel Zoe
• Top secret woman
• The agent’s nickname is “Irina”. The Secret Life of Zoe Voskresenskaya, 12/11/2014, “Arguments and Facts”
• Agent Voskresenskaya. As an employee of the NKVD became a children's writer, 04/26/2017, “Arguments and Facts”, No. 17
• Ovchinnikov D. Two lives of Zoya Voskresenskaya // Young Communard. - 10/03/2017.