Portnova, Zinaida Martynovna

Zinaida Portnova was born on February 20, 1926 in the city of Leningrad in a working class family. By nationality, Belarusian. She graduated from 7 classes (1941).

In early June 1941, she arrived on school holidays in the village of Zui, near the Obol station in the Shumilinsky district of the Vitebsk region . After the Nazi invasion of the USSR, Zina Portnova was in the occupied territory. Since 1942, he has been a member of the Obolsky underground organization Young Avengers , led by the future Hero of the Soviet Union, E. S. Zenkova , a member of the organization’s committee. Underground was adopted by the Komsomol .

According to Soviet historiography, she participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the invaders. Working in the dining room of the retraining courses for German officers, poisoned the soup, as directed by the underground (more than a hundred officers died). The Nazis began the search for intruders, suspecting everyone and everyone. Zina also came under suspicion, which the Germans almost force-fed with that very soup. She did not remember how she got to the porch of her grandmother's house, but she gave her a drink of herbal decoctions and milk whey, as a result, the girl remained alive. However, after what happened, she was mortally dangerous to remain in the village, and Portnova was transferred to a partisan detachment.

Since August 1943, the scout of the partisan detachment named after K.E. Voroshilova. In December 1943, returning from a task 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. At one of the interrogations in the Gestapo of the village of Goryany (now the Polotsk district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus), grabbing the investigator’s gun from the table, shot him and two other Nazis, tried to escape, was captured. 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 ).

• The name of Zina Portnova was given to a street in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg .
• From 1968 to 2000, the ship Zina Portnova existed in the Far Eastern Shipping Company .
• In the urban village of Obol (Belarus):
  • there is Zina Portnova street,
  • the school is named after Zina Portnova,
  • a bust and a plaque are installed in the lobby of this school,
  • the museum of the underground organization Young Avengers is operating,
  • On the street of Nina Azolina, the house where Zina Portnova lived was preserved.
• On the A215 highway in the urban village of Obol (Belarus) there is a memorial wall on which the active participants of the Obol underground group are listed, including Zina Portnova.
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  Obol Museum - a napkin bound by Zina Portnova
  On the Avenue of Heroes in front of the Shumilino Museum of History and Local Lore, a portrait and name of Z. M. Portnova are engraved on a granite slab.
• Zina Portnova was officially ranked among the “pioneer heroes” of the Soviet Union ^{[2] [3]} .
• In 1978, an artistic labeled envelope was published dedicated to the heroine.
• Monument to Zina Portnova in the village of Yagodnoye , near Tolyatti - the territory of the former Scarlet Sails pioneer camp .
• In Moscow, on the territory of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, at the entrance to Pavilion No. 8, a bust of sculptor N.Kongiser was installed.
• She became the prototype of the character of the Russian-Japanese-Canadian animated film in the fantasy genre “ The First Squad ”.
• Zina Portnova Museum at school number 608 in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg ^[4] .
• Portrait of Zinaida Portnova on Novgorodskaya street in St. Petersburg ^[5] .

• By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 1, 1958, Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin .

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  Commemorative plaque in St. Petersburg . Zina Portnova Street

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  Memorial plaque st. Zina Portnova , 60 St. Petersburg

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  Dedicated to Zinaida Portnova, 1978, an art labeled envelope of the USSR

• Portnova Zinaida Martynovna // Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - S. 311. - 863 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
• The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 : Encyclopedia / Ed. M. M. Kozlova . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1985. - S. 559-560. - 500,000 copies.
• Smirnov V.A. Zina Portnova / - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1980 .-- 101 p.
• Nabatov G. Komsomolka from the Narva outpost // Heroes: essays on women - Heroes of the Soviet Union / ed. L. F. Toropov; foreword E. Kononenko . - Vol. 2. - M .: Politizdat , 1969 .-- 463 p.
• "Salute Pioneer" - M .: Publishing house "Kid" , 1982.
• Portnova Zinaida Martynovna // Military Encyclopedia / Grachev P.S. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 2002. - T. 6. - S. 531. - ISBN 5-203-01873-1 .
• Solodov A.S. Girl with pigtails. - M .: DOSAAF, 1975 .-- 127 p.
• Portnova Zinaida Martynovna // The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945: Encyclopedia / Ed. M. M. Kozlova . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1985.- S. 575. - 832 p.

• Portnova, Zinaida Martynovna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Biography
• Solodov A. Girl with pigtails. The story .
• Nabatov G. Zina Portnova. Artistic and documentary story .
• Excursion to the branch of the Shumilino Museum of History and Local Lore, the Obol Museum of the underground youth group Young Avengers on YouTube .
• Interview with the younger sister of Zina Portnova, 2.1.2014 newspaper "Tomorrow" .
• Opening of the Zina Portnova Museum, newspaper “Evening Petersburg”, April 17, 2015 .
• Obal Museum - photos from 01/13/2015 with information to them