Biography of Zoe Cosmodemyanskaya

Zoya Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya gg. After his death, Zoya became a symbol of heroism, courage, patriotism. Her fate is simple as the fate of many of her peers: she was born, studied, entered the Komsomol, went to the front, died. There were many such girls even in the part where Zoya served. People dreamed of giving their lives for their homeland, but the fact remains: in the very first days of the war, thousands of statements were received to the military enlistment offices and committees of Komsomol with requests to send them to the army.

When in October there was a danger of capture of Moscow, four rifle divisions were compiled from volunteers - this is almost 80 thousand. Among those who wanted to are a huge number of girls. Including Zoya. Zoya was born in the Tambov region in M, two years later, brother Alexander was born.

Sasha’s birthday is July 27. But the date of birth of Zoe still raises questions: September 8 or 13? Metric books from the local Znamenskaya Church were seized even before her birth, but in the passport is distinctly distinguishable - on September 13. In Siberian Shitkin, the Cosmodemyansky lived only a year, and then moved to the capital. At the Zoe school, literature was best given, she loved to read, wrote excellent works, recognized the conditions for entering the literary institution.

Father - Anatoly Petrovich died in the year. In order to feed young children, mother - Lyubov Timofeevna, who worked as a teacher all her life, decides to radically change their occupation: he goes to work as a compressor to the factory - they paid more for working professions. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Zoya tried a lot of classes: she wrapped duffel bags and buttonholes for raincoats, together with the class collected potatoes on the labor front.

For several days, she worked as a pile-driver at the Board factory, entered the courses of nurses. However, all this seemed to her too small in a contribution to the victory. She decides to go to the front, and for the sake of this, among other volunteers, he stands in line for an appointment with the secretary of the Moscow City Committee of Komsomol Alexander Shelepin.

True, the unit commander Arthur Progis at first refused to accept it. She looked too beautiful and noticeable for the scout. Until late at night, she sat near his office and was still accepted into the unit. This happened on October 30. The set was made from yesterday's schoolchildren. Most die, having been captured by the Germans when performing raids in the enemy rear. After the preparation, Zoya became a member of the intelligence and sabotage part of the Western Front and was abandoned into the rear of the enemy.

The first combat mission of Zoe was completed with success. She mined the road near Volokolamsk as part of the subversive group. After Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and her comrades received a new combat mission, in which, in a short time, it was ordered to burn the villages of Anashkino, Gribtsovo, Petrishchevo, Usadkovo, Ilyatino, Grachev, Pushkino, Mikhailovskoye, Bugailovo, Korovina.

To undermine the fighters were given several bottles of incendiary mixture. To complete the assignment, two groups of 10 people were allocated. Under the village of Golovkovo, both groups were ambushed, having suffered losses: some of the scouts were killed, and some were captured. The remaining fighters united and under the command of Kraynov continued the operation. On the night of November 27, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, together with Boris Krainov and Vasily Kubkov, set fire to in Petrishchev this village acted as a transport interchange of three houses in which the communications knot was located, and the Germans were housed before being sent to the front.

And also destroyed 20 horses designed for transportation. To further fulfill the assignment, they gathered in a agreed place, but B. Kraynov did not wait for his and returned to the camp. Clubs grabbed the Germans. Zoya decided to continue completing the assignment alone. Sviridov raised the alarm. The rushing Germans arrested the girl. During the detention, Zoya did not shoot.

Before the task, she gave the weapon to her friend, Claudia Miloradova, who went on the assignment of the first. The Claudia gun was faulty, so Zoya gave a more reliable weapon. The interrogation was conducted by three German officers with a translator. According to witnesses, the Germans failed to wrest information about comrades from the girl, even by inhuman tortures.

The only thing she said was Tanya called the name. On the morning of November 29, a beaten, with frostbitten legs, Kosmodemyanskaya Komsomolskaya Pravda was taken to the street. There the Germans have already prepared a gallows. They hung a tablet on the girl’s chest, on which in Russian and German it was written: “The arsonist of the houses”. Many Germans gathered to look at the sight.

The Nazis took pictures. At that moment, the girl shouted: “Citizens! Do not stand, do not look. We must help to fight the Red Army, and for my death, our comrades will avenge the German fascists. The Soviet Union is invincible and will not be defeated. ” Incredible courage is to appeal to selflessness without thinking about death. After the war, the ashes of Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya were reburied at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

The decree on the assignment of Zoe Cosmodemyansk title Hero of the Soviet Union printed all the central newspapers on February 16.The image of the heroine of Zoe Cosmodemyanskaya was widespread in monumental art. Museums, monuments, busts - reminders of the courage and selflessness of a young girl is still in sight. In memory of the Zoe Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, the streets are named in the post -Soviet space.

Her named schools and other educational institutions, a library, asteroid, an electric locomotive, a tank regiment, a vessel, a village, a peak in Zailiysky Alatau and the BT tank tragic fate of the girl touched the foreign authors - the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet and the Chinese poet Ai Qing. Many films have been shot about the fate of Cosmodemyanskaya.

In M, the painting "Zoya" of the director Leo Arnstam was released. In the title role, Galina Vodynitskaya was involved. No less known “in the name of life” and “battle for Moscow”. Another vivid film work is the painting “Zoya”, the premiere of which took place in the meter in the image of the heroine, actress Anastasia Mishina appeared.