Shevtsova, Lyubov Grigoryevna

Lyubov Shevtsova was born in the village of Izvarino, Krasnodonsky district. In 1927, the Shevtsov family moved to Krasnodon . Father - Grigory Ilyich, mother - Efrosinya Mironovna, Lyuba - their only daughter. While studying at school, she was distinguished by a cheerful character, won sports competitions, participated in amateur performances and attended a circle of young people .

In February 1942, Lyubov Shevtsova joined the Komsomol ^[1] . In April 1942, on the recommendation of the Krasnodon district committee of the Komsomol, she became a cadet at the Voroshilovgrad school for the training of partisans and underground activists, and received a radio specialty here.

After graduating from school, in the summer of 1942 Shevtsova was left for communication in one of the underground groups operating in the occupied Voroshilovgrad. Her responsibilities included transmitting intelligence collected by the underground to the Center. In mid-August, as a result of the failure of the safe house of one of the members of the underground group, there was a danger of Shevtsova’s arrest. After unsuccessful attempts to establish contact with the group leader, Lyuba was forced to leave for Krasnodon. It establishes a connection with the youth underground, becomes an active member of the Young Guard organization, and then a member of its headquarters.

Lyubov Shevtsova distributed leaflets, conducted intelligence, and obtained medicine. Together with Sergey Tyulenin and Viktor Lukyanchenko, in December 1942, she participated in the arson of the labor exchange, and then returned to the club, where she sang for German officers to distract their attention from the fire on the exchange. The bold operation of the Young Guard saved about two thousand young men and women from the Krasnodon region from being hijacked to Germany. On instructions from the headquarters, Lyuba repeatedly traveled to Voroshilovgrad, Kamensk and other settlements, communicating with partisans.

Unexpectedly, the police arrested one of the members of the underground group as anti-fascist, but since the police did not have information about his connections with Soviet intelligence, he was soon released with the permission of the SD. However, the carelessness of this member of the group complicated the work of Shevtsova. In September 1942, the Germans came to the apartment where Shevtsova was staying and asked where she lived. Lyuba was at that time with her relatives in Krasnodon. Arriving in Voroshilovgrad and learning about the visit of the Germans, she left the city. It was unsafe to appear in Voroshilovgrad, but she came to the city several times, trying to establish contact with the group leader. At the risk of her life, Lyuba tried to pick up the radio and take it to Krasnodon. She failed to establish contact with the leaders of the group. Shevtsova’s note to the leader of the group, written in pencil on a piece of musical paper, has been preserved. Shevtsova wrote:

"... I was with you, that you have a bad situation? But still it should be as it should be, safe and sound. If you live badly, then try to get to me, it’s much better with us, but without mine don’t do anything. I’ll probably take it or take it a little bit of my dowry. If you come to me, then my address is. Krasnodon, Chkalova St., N27 ".

Shevtsova did not know that at this time her walkie-talkie was destroyed by the leader of the group.

On January 8, 1943, Lyubov Shevtsova was arrested by the Krasnodar police.

The Nazis had long been looking for her as a Soviet radio operator, therefore, trying to find out the codes and appearances from her, they tormented the underground woman for especially long and cruelly. But they did not achieve anything. On January 31, 1943, Lyuba Shevtsova, together with Dmitry Ogurtsov, Semyon Ostapenko and Viktor Subbotin, was escorted to the district gendarmerie in the city of Rovenki under an escort. On February 9, after torture and bullying, they were shot in the Rattles forest on the outskirts of the city.

Lyubov Shevtsova was buried in the mass grave of the victims of Nazism in the center of the city of Rovenka in the square named after the Young Guard.

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was posthumously awarded by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 13, 1943 . She was awarded the Order of Lenin .

• He is the hero of the novel A. Fadeev " Young Guard " and the movie of the same name S. Gerasimov and the television series L. Plyaskin.
• Streets in Dnepropetrovsk , Lugansk , Volgograd , Krasnoyarsk , Voronezh , Novosibirsk , Nizhny Novgorod , Ulyanovsk and other settlements were named after L. G. Shevtsova.
• In 1972, a pleasure boat “Lyuba Shevtsova” was built (home port is Yalta), and has not been in operation since autumn 2011.
• In 2017, the Post of Lugansk People’s Republic issued a block of stamps “Young Guard 75 years”. One of the block’s brands is dedicated to L. Shevtsova ^[2] .

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  Bust of Lyubov Shevtsova in Kharkov

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  Heroes - Young Guard : Ulyana Gromova , Ivan Zemnukhov , Oleg Koshevoi , Sergey Tyulenin , Lyubov Shevtsova

• Shevtsova Lyubov Grigoryevna // Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - S. 769-770. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
• Zharikov L. Krasnodon Pages // Heroes: Essays on Women - Heroes of the Soviet Union / ed. L. F. Toropov; foreword E. Kononenko . - Vol. 1. - M .: Politizdat , 1969 .-- 447 p.
• Verneeva S. A. And the role was assigned by the war: the story of Lyuba Shevtsova. - Donetsk: Donbass, 1989 .-- 165 p.

Shevtsova, Lyubov Grigoryevna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• Young Guards - Shevtsova Love .

• Shevtsova Street