Maya Konstantinovna Peglivanova (1925–1943) - Soviet underground worker, a member of the underground youth organization “Young Guard” . By nationality Armenian.
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| Date of Birth | May 20, 1925 | ||
| Place of Birth | Rostov-on-Don | ||
| Date of death | January 16, 1943 (17 years) | ||
| Place of death | Krasnodon | ||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | ||
| Occupation | underground worker | ||
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Biography
Maya Peglivanova was born in Rostov-on-Don on May 20, 1925. In 1926, her father died, and her mother and Maya moved to the Pervomayka village of the Krasnodon district of Voroshilovgrad region, where Maya lived her whole, unfortunately, very short life.
In 1932, at the age of seven, Maya went to the first class of May Day School No. 6. The girl was loved by her comrades and teachers for her energy, fairness, perseverance, and willingness to always help others. Already in the 6th grade, Maya became a pioneer leader. In high school, she was fond of chemistry and mathematics. Her interest in chemistry was noticed by her teacher, Alexandra Dubrovina . She became involved with Maya in addition, the girls became very friendly. Subsequently, they will fight together in the ranks of the "Young Guard" against the fascist invaders.
In 1940, Maya Peglivanova was admitted to the Komsomol . Maya was very responsible for her new duties, so at first she was elected secretary of the Komsomol school organization, and then a member of the Komsomol district committee.
From the first days of the war, Maya actively helps seniors: works on a collective farm, organizes a collection of gifts for front-line soldiers.
When Krasnodon was occupied by the fascists, Maya Peglivanova was one of the first to join the Young Guard underground organization. She is actively involved in the struggle: she writes and distributes leaflets, collects medicines, conducts agitational work among the population, helps escape Soviet prisoners of war, takes part in the preparation of military operations.
So that she would not be hijacked to Germany, Maya gets a job at the club named after A. M. Gorky, which was opened by the Young Guard to distract the fascists and policemen with ideas, and in the meantime hold meetings of the organization’s headquarters.
Maya signed up for a string, choir and drama club.
On January 11, 1943, Maya Peglivanova was arrested. Like all of her comrades, the girl was severely tortured, but she did not answer a single word to the executioners, remained true to her oath to the end.
Translator Reiband told his mother that during the interrogation Maya confessed that she was a partisan, and proudly threw words of curse and contempt in the face of the executioners. Maya was tortured. Cut off the chest, broken legs.
The police tried to hide the destruction of the partisans from the people. On the second day after the execution, the mothers who brought the program announced that the girls had been taken to correctional facilities.
The names of the girls, Maya Peglivanova, Shura Dubrovina, Ulyashi Gromova and Gerasimova, were inscribed on the walls of the cell.
“They are taking us away ...” - unintelligible. "What a pity that we will not see you again." "Long live Comrade Stalin ."
Maya's corpse is disfigured: cut off the chest, broken legs. Removed all the outerwear.
- ( RGASPI . F. M-1. Op. 53. D. 331)
When the Young Guards were carried to execution, Maya was so exhausted that she could not walk on her own, she was carried in her arms. On the night of January 15 to 16, 1943, the fascists dropped Maya Peglivanova and another 48 Young Guardsmen into the 58-meter pit of mine No. 5.
March 1, 1943 Maya and her comrades were buried in a mass grave of heroes in the center of the city of Krasnodon .
Awards
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (posthumously)
- Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree (posthumously)
Literature
- Young Guard (collection of documents and memories of the heroic struggle of the underground workers of Krasnodon during the days of the temporary fascist occupation (July 1942 - February 1943). - Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Young Artists' Union Molod, ”Kiev - 1961.
- Young Guard: Biographical. essays on members of the Krasnodon party-Komsomol underground / Comp. R.M. Aptekar, A.G. Nikitenko - Donetsk: Donbass, 1981.