Children's exploits. Heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits (briefly)

Heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and their exploits

The battles have long died down. The veterans leave one by one. But the heroes of the Second World War of 1941-1945 and their exploits will forever remain in the memory of grateful descendants. This article will tell about the brightest personalities of those years and their immortal deeds. Some were still quite young, while others were no longer young. Each of the characters has its own character and its own destiny. But all of them were united by love for the Motherland and a willingness to sacrifice themselves for its good.

Alexander Matrosov

Orphanage pupil Sasha Matrosov went to war at the age of 18. Immediately after the infantry school, he was sent to the front. February 1943 turned out to be "hot". Alexander's battalion went on the attack, and at some point the guy, along with several comrades, was surrounded. It was not possible to break through to our own - enemy machine guns fired too densely.

Soon Matrosov was left alone. His comrades perished under the bullets. The young man had only a few seconds to make a decision. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the last in his life. Wanting to bring at least some benefit to his native battalion, Alexander Matrosov rushed to the embrasure, covering it with his body. The fire is silent. The attack of the Red Army was ultimately successful - the Nazis retreated. And Sasha went to heaven as a young and handsome 19-year-old guy ...

Marat Kazei

When the Great Patriotic War began, Marat Kazei was only twelve. He lived in the village of Stankovo ​​with his sister and parents. In the 41st he was in occupation. Marat's mother helped the partisans, providing them with her shelter and feeding them. Once the Germans found out about this and shot the woman. Left alone, the children, without hesitation, went to the forest and joined the partisans.

Marat, who had completed only four classes before the war, helped his senior comrades as much as he could. He was even taken on reconnaissance; and he also participated in undermining the German trains. In the 43rd, the boy was awarded the medal "For Courage", for the heroism shown during the breakthrough of the encirclement. The boy was wounded in that terrible battle.

And in 1944, Kazei was returning from intelligence with an adult partisan. They were noticed by the Germans and began to fire. The older comrade died. Marat fired back to the last bullet. And when he had only one grenade left, the teenager let the Germans get closer and blew himself up along with them. He was 15 years old.

Alexey Maresyev

The name of this man is known to every inhabitant of the former Soviet Union. After all, we are talking about a legendary pilot. Alexei Maresyev was born in 1916 and dreamed of the sky since childhood. Even the transferred rheumatism did not become an obstacle on the way to the dream. Despite the prohibitions of doctors, Alexei entered the flight - they took him after several futile attempts.

In 1941, the stubborn young man went to the front. The sky was not what he dreamed of. But it was necessary to defend the Motherland, and Maresyev did everything for this. Once his plane was shot down. Wounded in both legs, Aleksey managed to land the car on the territory occupied by the Germans and even somehow get through to his own.

But time has been lost. The legs were "devoured" by gangrene, and they had to be amputated. Where to go to a soldier without both limbs? After all, she was completely crippled ... But Alexei Maresyev was not one of those. He remained in the ranks and continued to fight the enemy.

As many as 86 times the winged car with the hero on board managed to take to the skies. Maresyev shot down 11 German planes. The pilot was lucky to survive that terrible war and feel the heady taste of victory. He died in 2001. "The Tale of a Real Man" by Boris Polevoy is a work about him. It was the feat of Maresyev that inspired the author to write it.

Zinaida Portnova

Born in 1926, Zina Portnova met the war as a teenager. At that time, a native resident of Leningrad was visiting relatives in Belarus. Once in the occupied territory, she did not sit on the sidelines, but joined the partisan movement. Pasted leaflets, established contact with the underground ...

In 1943, the Germans grabbed the girl and dragged her to their lair. During the interrogation, Zina somehow managed to take a pistol from the table. She shot her tormentors - two soldiers and an investigator.

It was a heroic act that made the attitude of the Germans towards Zina even more brutal. It is impossible to convey in words the torment that the girl experienced during the terrible torture. But she was silent. Not a word could be squeezed out by the Nazis from her. As a result, the Germans shot their captive without getting anything from the heroine Zina Portnova.

Andrey Korzun

Andrei Korzun turned thirty in 1941. He was immediately called to the front, sent to the artillerymen. Korzun took part in the terrible battles near Leningrad, during one of which he was seriously wounded. It was November 5, 1943.

As he fell, Korzun noticed that the ammunition depot was on fire. It was necessary to urgently put out the fire, otherwise an explosion of enormous force threatened to take many lives. Somehow, bleeding and in pain, the gunner crawled to the warehouse. The artilleryman did not have the strength to take off his overcoat and throw it on the flame. Then he covered the fire with his body. The explosion didn't happen. Andrei Korzun failed to survive.

Leonid Golikov

Another young hero is Lenya Golikov. Born in 1926. Lived in the Novgorod region. With the outbreak of war, he left to partisan. The courage and determination of this teenager was not to take. Leonid destroyed 78 Nazis, a dozen enemy trains and even a couple of bridges.

The explosion that went down in history and claimed the German General Richard von Wirtz was his doing. The car of an important rank flew into the air, and Golikov took possession of valuable documents, for which he received the star of the Hero.

A brave partisan died in 1943 near the village of Ostraya Luka during a German attack. The enemy significantly outnumbered our fighters in number, and they had no chance. Golikov fought until his last breath.

These are just six of the great many stories that permeate the entire war. Everyone who passed it, who even for a moment brought victory closer, is already a hero. Thanks to such as Maresyev, Golikov, Korzun, Matrosov, Kazei, Portnova and millions of other Soviet soldiers, the world got rid of the brown plague of the 20th century. And the reward for their deeds was eternal life!

Before the war, they were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped the elders, played, bred pigeons, sometimes even took part in fights. But the hour of hard trials has come and they proved how huge an ordinary little child's heart can become when a sacred love for the Motherland, pain for the fate of its people and hatred of enemies flares up in it. And no one expected that it was these boys and girls who were able to accomplish a great feat for the glory of the freedom and independence of their Motherland!

Children left in the destroyed cities and villages became homeless, doomed to starvation. It was scary and difficult to stay in the territory occupied by the enemy. Children could be sent to a concentration camp, taken to work in Germany, turned into slaves, made donors for German soldiers, etc.

Here are the names of some of them: Volodya Kazmin, Yura Zhdanko, Lenya Golikov, Marat Kazei, Lara Mikheenko, Valya Kotik, Tanya Morozova, Vitya Korobkov, Zina Portnova. Many of them fought so hard that they earned military orders and medals, and four: Marat Kazei, Valya Kotik, Zina Portnova, Lenya Golikov, became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

From the first days of the occupation, the boys and girls began to act at their own peril and risk, which was really deadly.

"Fedya Samodurov. Fedya is 14 years old, he is a graduate of the motorized rifle unit, commanded by the guard captain A. Chernavin. Fedya was picked up in his homeland, in the ruined village of the Voronezh region. Together with a unit, he took part in the battles for Ternopil, with a machine-gun crew he kicked the Germans out of the city. When almost the entire crew died, the teenager, together with the surviving soldier, took up the machine gun, firing long and hard, and detained the enemy. Fedya was awarded the medal "For Courage".

Vanya Kozlov, 13 years old,he was left without relatives and has been in a motorized rifle unit for the second year. At the front, he delivers food, newspapers and letters to soldiers in the most difficult conditions.

Petya Zub. Petya Zub chose a no less difficult specialty. He had long ago decided to become a scout. His parents were killed, and he knows how to pay off the accursed German. Together with experienced scouts, he gets to the enemy, reports his location on the radio, and artillery fires at their orders, crushing the Nazis.

A sixteen year old schoolgirl Olya Demesh with her younger sister Lida at the Orsha station in Belarus, on the instructions of the commander of the partisan brigade S. Zhulin, tanks with fuel were blown up using magnetic mines. Of course, the girls attracted much less attention of the German guards and policemen than teenage boys or adult men. But after all, it was just right for the girls to play with dolls, and they fought with Wehrmacht soldiers!

Thirteen-year-old Lida often took a basket or a bag and went to the railway tracks to collect coal, obtaining intelligence about German military trains. If she was stopped by sentries, she explained that she was collecting coal to heat the room in which the Germans lived. The Nazis seized and shot Olya's mother and younger sister Lida, and Olya continued to fearlessly carry out the tasks of the partisans.

For the head of the young partisan Olya Demes, the Nazis promised a generous reward - land, a cow and 10,000 marks. Copies of her photograph were distributed and sent to all patrol services, policemen, elders and secret agents. Capture and deliver her alive - that was the order! But the girl could not be caught. Olga destroyed 20 German soldiers and officers, derailed 7 enemy echelons, conducted reconnaissance, participated in the "rail war", in the destruction of German punitive units.

Children of the Great Patriotic War

What happened to the children during this terrible time? During the war?

The guys worked for days at factories, factories and industries, standing behind the machines instead of the brothers and fathers who had gone to the front. Children also worked at defense enterprises: they made fuses for mines, fuses for hand grenades, smoke bombs, colored signal flares, and collected gas masks. They worked in agriculture, grew vegetables for hospitals.

In the school sewing workshops, the pioneers sewed underwear and tunics for the army. Girls knitted warm clothes for the front: mittens, socks, scarves, sewed pouches for tobacco. The guys helped the wounded in hospitals, wrote letters to their relatives under their dictation, put on performances for the wounded, arranged concerts, causing a smile from war-torn adult men.

A number of objective reasons: the departure of teachers to the army, the evacuation of the population from the western regions to the eastern regions, the inclusion of students in labor activities in connection with the departure of family breadwinners to the war, the transfer of many schools to hospitals, etc., prevented the deployment in the USSR during the war of a universal seven-year compulsory education started in the 1930s. In the remaining educational institutions, training was conducted in two or three, and sometimes four shifts.

At the same time, the children themselves were forced to store firewood for boiler houses. There were no textbooks, and because of the lack of paper, they wrote on old newspapers between the lines. Nevertheless, new schools were opened and additional classes were created. Boarding schools were created for evacuated children. For those young people who left school at the beginning of the war and were employed in industry or agriculture, schools for working and rural youth were organized in 1943.

There are still many little-known pages in the annals of the Great Patriotic War, for example, the fate of kindergartens. "It turns out that in December 1941 in besieged Moscowkindergartens worked in bomb shelters. When the enemy was driven back, they resumed their work faster than many universities. By the autumn of 1942, 258 kindergartens had opened in Moscow!

From the memories of the military childhood of Lydia Ivanovna Kostyleva:

“After the death of my grandmother, I was assigned to a kindergarten, my older sister was at school, my mother was at work. I went to kindergarten alone, by tram, when I was less than five years old. Somehow I got seriously ill with mumps, I was lying at home alone with a high temperature, there was no medicine, in my delirium I fancied a pig running under the table, but everything worked out.
I saw my mother in the evenings and on rare weekends. Children were brought up by the street, we were friendly and always hungry. From early spring, they ran to the mosses, the benefit of the forest and swamps nearby, picked berries, mushrooms, and various early grass. The bombings gradually stopped, allied residences were placed in our Arkhangelsk, this brought a certain color to life - we, the children, sometimes got warm clothes, some food. Basically, we ate black shangi, potatoes, seal meat, fish and fish oil, on holidays - seaweed marmalade, tinted with beets.

More than five hundred teachers and nannies in the fall of 1941 were digging trenches on the outskirts of the capital. Hundreds worked in logging. The teachers, who only yesterday led a round dance with the children, fought in the Moscow militia. Natasha Yanovskaya, a kindergarten teacher in the Bauman district, heroically died near Mozhaisk. The teachers who remained with the children did not perform feats. They just saved the kids, whose fathers fought, and their mothers stood at the machines.

Most of the kindergartens during the war became boarding schools, the children were there day and night. And in order to feed the children in the half-starved time, to protect them from the cold, to give them at least a modicum of comfort, to keep them occupied for the benefit of the mind and soul - such work required great love for children, deep decency and boundless patience. "(D. Shevarov " World of News”, No. 27, 2010, p. 27).

Children's games have changed, "... a new game has appeared - in the hospital. They used to play in the hospital before, but not like that. Now the wounded are real people for them. But they play war less often, because no one wants to be a fascist. This role is played by they are performed by trees. Snowballs are fired at them. We learned to help the injured - the fallen, the bruised."

From a letter from a boy to a front-line soldier: “We also often played war before, but now much less often - we are tired of the war, it would sooner end so that we could live well again ...” (Ibid.).

In connection with the death of parents, many homeless children appeared in the country. The Soviet state, despite the difficult wartime, still fulfilled its obligations to children left without parents. To combat neglect, a network of children's reception centers and orphanages was organized and opened, and employment for adolescents was organized.

Many families of Soviet citizens began to take in orphans to raisewhere they found new parents. Unfortunately, not all educators and heads of children's institutions were distinguished by honesty and decency. Here are some examples.

“In the autumn of 1942, in the Pochinkovsky district of the Gorky region, children dressed in rags were caught stealing potatoes and grain from collective farm fields. investigations, local police officers uncovered a criminal group, and, in fact, a gang consisting of employees of this institution.

In total, seven people were arrested in the case, including the director of the orphanage Novoseltsev, the accountant Sdobnov, the storekeeper Mukhina and others. During the searches, 14 children's coats, seven suits, 30 meters of cloth, 350 meters of manufactory and other misappropriated property, allocated by the state with great difficulty during this harsh wartime, were seized from them.

The investigation found that by not giving the due norm of bread and products, these criminals only during 1942 stole seven tons of bread, half a ton of meat, 380 kg of sugar, 180 kg of biscuits, 106 kg of fish, 121 kg of honey, etc. The orphanage workers sold all these scarce products in the market or simply ate them up themselves.

Only one comrade Novoseltsev received fifteen portions of breakfasts and lunches daily for himself and his family members. At the expense of the pupils, the rest of the staff also ate well. The children were fed "dishes" made from rot and vegetables, referring to the poor supply.

For the whole of 1942, they were only given one candy each for the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution ... And most surprisingly, the director of the orphanage, Novoseltsev, in the same 1942 received a diploma from the People's Commissariat of Education for excellent educational work. All these fascists were deservedly sentenced to long terms of imprisonment."

At such a time, the whole essence of a person is manifested .. Every day to face a choice - how to act .. And the war showed us examples of great mercy, great heroism and great cruelty, great meanness .. We must remember this !! For the sake of the future!!

And no time can heal the wounds of the war, especially those of children. “These years that were once, the bitterness of childhood does not allow to forget ...”

Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War

Cognitive material for extracurricular work in literary reading or history for elementary school on the topic: WWII

Before the war, they were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped the elders, played, bred pigeons, sometimes even took part in fights. These were ordinary children and teenagers, known only to relatives, classmates and friends.

But the hour of hard trials has come and they proved how huge an ordinary little child's heart can become when a sacred love for the Motherland, pain for the fate of its people and hatred of enemies flares up in it. Together with adults, the weight of hardships, disasters, grief of the war years fell on their fragile shoulders. And they did not bend under this weight, they became stronger in spirit, more courageous, more enduring. And no one expected that it was these boys and girls who were able to accomplish a great feat for the glory of the freedom and independence of their Motherland!

Not! we told the fascists,

Our people will not tolerate

To fragrant Russian bread

It was called "bro".

Where is the power in the world

To break us down

Bent us under the yoke

In those parts where in the days of victory

Our great-grandfathers and grandfathers

Have you feasted so many times?

And from sea to sea

Russian regiments got up.

We got up, we are united with the Russians,

Belarusians, Latvians,

People of free Ukraine,

Both Armenians and Georgians

Moldovans, Chuvashs...

Glory to our generals

Glory to our admirals

And ordinary soldiers ...

On foot, swimming, horseback,

Hardened in hot battles!

Glory to the fallen and the living,

I thank them from the bottom of my heart!

Let's not forget those heroes

What lies in the damp earth,

Giving life on the battlefield

For the people - for you and me.

Excerpts from S. Mikhalkov's poem "A True Story for Children"

Kazei Marat Ivanovich(1929-1944), partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1965, posthumously). Since 1942, a scout of a partisan detachment (Minsk region).

The Nazis broke into the village where Marat lived with his mother, Anna Alexandrovna. In the fall, Marat no longer had to go to school in the fifth grade. The Nazis turned the school building into their barracks. The enemy was furious. Anna Alexandrovna Kazei was captured for her connection with the partisans, and soon Marat found out that his mother had been hanged in Minsk. The boy's heart was filled with anger and hatred for the enemy. Together with his sister Ad oy, Marat Kazei went to the partisans in the Stankovsky forest. He became a scout at the headquarters of the partisan brigade. Penetrated into enemy garrisons and delivered valuable information to the command. Using this information, the partisans developed a daring operation and defeated the fascist garrison in the city of Dzerzhinsk. Marat took part in the battles and invariably showed courage, fearlessness, together with experienced demolition men, he mined the railway. Marat died in battle. He fought to the last bullet, and when he had only one grenade left, he let the enemies get closer and blew them up ... and himself. For courage and courage, fifteen-year-old Marat Kazei was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A monument to the young hero was erected in the city of Minsk.

Portnova Zinaida Martynovna (Zina) (1926-1944), a young partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1958, posthumously). Scout of the partisan detachment "Young Avengers" (Vitebsk region).

The war found Zina Portnova from Leningrad in the village of Zuya, where she came on vacation, not far from the Obol station in the Vitebsk region. In Obol, an underground Komsomol youth organization "Young Avengers" was created, and Zina was elected a member of its committee. She participated in daring operations against the enemy, distributed leaflets, and conducted reconnaissance on the instructions of the partisan detachment. In December 1943, returning from a mission, in the village of Mostishche, Zina was betrayed by a traitor to the Nazis. The Nazis seized the young partisan and tortured her. The answer to the enemy was Zina's silence, her contempt and hatred, her determination to fight to the end. During one of the interrogations, choosing the moment, Zina grabbed a pistol from the table and fired point-blank at the Gestapo. The officer who ran into the shot was also killed on the spot. Zina tried to escape, but the Nazis overtook her. The brave young partisan was brutally tortured, but until the last minute she remained steadfast, courageous, unbending. And the Motherland posthumously noted her feat with her highest title - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Kotik Valentin Alexandrovich(Valya) (1930-1944), a young partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1958, posthumously). Since 1942 - a liaison of an underground organization in the city of Shepetovka, a scout of a partisan detachment (Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine).

Valya was born on February 11, 1930 in the village of Khmelevka, Shepetovsky district, Khmelnitsky region. Studied at school number 4. When the Nazis broke into Shepetovka, Valya Kotik, together with his friends, decided to fight the enemy. The guys collected weapons at the battlefield, which the partisans then transported to the detachment in a wagon of hay. Looking closely at the boy, the leaders of the partisan detachment entrusted Valya to be a liaison and intelligence officer in their underground organization. He learned the location of enemy posts, the order of the changing of the guard. The Nazis planned a punitive operation against the partisans, and Valya, having tracked down the Nazi officer who led the punishers, killed him. When arrests began in the city, Valya, along with his mother and brother Viktor, went to the partisans. An ordinary boy, who had just turned fourteen years old, fought shoulder to shoulder with adults, liberating his native land. On his account - six enemy echelons blown up on the way to the front. Valya Kotik was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, and the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War," 2nd class. Valya died as a hero in one of the unequal battles with the Nazis.

Golikov Leonid Alexandrovich(1926-1943). Young partisan hero. A brigade reconnaissance officer of the 67th detachment of the fourth Leningrad partisan brigade, operating on the territory of the Novgorod and Pskov regions. Participated in 27 combat operations.

In total, they destroyed 78 fascists, two railway and 12 highway bridges, two food and feed depots and 10 vehicles with ammunition. He distinguished himself in battles near the villages of Aprosovo, Sosnitsy, Sever. Accompanied a wagon train with food (250 carts) to besieged Leningrad. For valor and courage he was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of War and the medal "For Courage".

On August 13, 1942, returning from reconnaissance from the Luga-Pskov highway near the village of Varnitsy, he blew up a car in which the German Major General of the Engineering Troops Richard von Wirtz was. Golikov in a shootout shot from a machine gun the general who accompanied his officer and driver. A scout delivered a briefcase with documents to the brigade headquarters. Among them were drawings and descriptions of new models of German mines, inspection reports to the higher command and other important military papers. Introduced to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. On January 24, 1943, in an unequal battle in the village of Ostraya Luka, Pskov Region, Leonid Golikov died. The Presidium of the Supreme Council, by Decree of April 2, 1944, awarded him the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Arkady Kamanin I dreamed of heaven when I was just a boy. Arkady's father, Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin, a pilot, participated in the rescue of the Chelyuskinites, for which he received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And always there is a friend of his father, Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopyanov. There was something to light up the little boy's heart. But they didn’t let him into the air, they said: grow up. When the war began, he went to work at an aircraft factory, then at the airfield. Experienced pilots, even if only for a few minutes, happened to trust him to fly the plane. Once an enemy bullet shattered the glass of the cockpit. The pilot was blinded. Losing consciousness, he managed to transfer control to Arkady, and the boy landed the plane at his airfield. After that, Arkady was allowed to seriously study flying, and soon he began to fly on his own. Once, from a height, a young pilot saw our plane, shot down by the Nazis. Under heavy mortar fire, Arkady landed, transferred the pilot to his plane, took off and returned to his own. The Order of the Red Star shone on his chest. For participation in battles with the enemy, Arkady was awarded the second Order of the Red Star. By that time he had already become an experienced pilot, although he was fifteen years old. Until the very victory, Arkady Kamanin fought with the Nazis. The young hero dreamed of the sky and conquered the sky!

Yuta Bondarovskaya in the summer of 1941 she came from Leningrad for a vacation to a village near Pskov. Here a terrible war overtook her. Utah began to help the partisans. First she was a messenger, then a scout. Disguised as a beggar boy, she collected information from the villages: where the headquarters of the Nazis were, how they were guarded, how many machine guns. The partisan detachment, together with units of the Red Army, left to help the Estonian partisans. In one of the battles - near the Estonian farm Rostov - Yuta Bondarovskaya, the little heroine of the great war, died the death of the brave. The Motherland awarded her heroic daughter posthumously with the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" of the 1st degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

When the war began, and the Nazis were approaching Leningrad, for underground work in the village of Tarnovichi - in the south of the Leningrad region - Anna Petrovna Semenova, a school counselor, was left. To communicate with the partisans, she picked up her most reliable guys, and the first among them was Galina Komleva. Cheerful, brave, inquisitive girl in her six school years was awarded six times with books with the signature: "For excellent study." The young liaison officer brought assignments from the partisans to her leader, and her reports were forwarded to the detachment along with bread, potatoes, and products that were obtained with great difficulty. Once, when a messenger from the partisan detachment did not arrive at the meeting point on time, Galya, half-frozen, herself made her way to the detachment, handed over a report and, having warmed up a little, hurried back, carrying a new task to the underground. Together with the young partisan Tasya Yakovleva, Galya wrote leaflets and scattered them around the village at night. The Nazis tracked down and captured the young underground workers. They were kept in the Gestapo for two months. The young patriot was shot. The Motherland marked the feat of Gali Komleva with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

For the operation of reconnaissance and explosion of the railway bridge across the Drissa River, a Leningrad schoolgirl Larisa Mikheenko was presented with a government award. But the young heroine did not have time to receive her award.

The war cut the girl off from her hometown: in the summer she went on vacation to the Pustoshkinsky district, but she could not return - the Nazis occupied the village. And then one night Larisa left the village with two older friends. At the headquarters of the 6th Kalinin brigade, commander Major P.V. Ryndin initially refused to accept "so small". But young girls were able to do what strong men could not. Dressed in rags, Lara walked around the villages, finding out where and how the guns were located, sentries were placed, which German cars were moving along the highway, what kind of trains and with what cargo they came to the Pustoshka station. She also participated in military operations. The young partisan, betrayed by a traitor in the village of Ignatovo, was shot by the Nazis. In the Decree on awarding Larisa Mikheenko with the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, there is a bitter word: "Posthumously."

Could not put up with the atrocities of the Nazis and Sasha Borodulin. Having obtained a rifle, Sasha destroyed the fascist motorcyclist, took the first military trophy - a real German machine gun. This was a good reason for accepting him into the partisan detachment. Day after day he conducted reconnaissance. More than once he went on the most dangerous missions. A lot of destroyed cars and soldiers were on his account. Sasha Borodulin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in the winter of 1941 for the performance of dangerous tasks, for his courage, resourcefulness and courage. The punishers tracked down the partisans. The detachment left them for three days. In the group of volunteers, Sasha remained to cover the retreat of the detachment. When all the comrades died, the brave hero, allowing the Nazis to close the ring around him, grabbed a grenade and blew them up and himself.

The feat of a young partisan

(Excerpts from M. Danilenko's essay "Grishina's Life" (translated by Y. Bogushevich))

At night, the punishers surrounded the village. Grisha woke up from some sound. He opened his eyes and looked out the window. A shadow flickered across the moonlit glass.

- Dad! Grisha called softly.

Sleep, what do you want? the father replied.

But the boy didn't sleep anymore. Stepping barefoot on the cold floor, he quietly walked out into the hallway. And then I heard someone yank open the door and several pairs of boots rattled heavily into the hut.

The boy rushed into the garden, where there was a bathhouse with a small outbuilding. Through a crack in the door Grisha saw his father, mother and sisters being taken out. Nadia was bleeding from her shoulder, and the girl clamped the wound with her hand...

Until dawn, Grisha stood in the annex and looked ahead with wide eyes. The moonlight was sparse. Somewhere an icicle fell off the roof and shattered on a mound with a quiet clang. The boy started. He felt neither cold nor fear.

That night he had a small wrinkle between his eyebrows. Appeared to never disappear again. Grisha's family was shot by the Nazis.

From village to village walked a thirteen-year-old boy with a not childishly stern look. Went to Sozh. He knew that somewhere across the river was his brother Alexei, there were partisans. A few days later, Grisha came to the village of Yametsky.

Feodosia Ivanova, a resident of this village, was a liaison officer of the partisan detachment commanded by Pyotr Antonovich Balykov. She brought the boy to the detachment.

Commissar Pavel Ivanovich Dedik and Chief of Staff Alexei Podobedov listened to Grisha with stern faces. And he stood in a torn shirt, with his legs knocked down on the roots, with an unquenchable fire of hatred in his eyes. The partisan life of Grisha Podobedov began. And no matter what task the partisans went on, Grisha always asked to take him with him ...

Grisha Podobedov became an excellent partisan scout. Somehow the messengers reported that the Nazis, together with the policemen from Korma, robbed the population. They took 30 cows and everything that came to hand, and they are going in the direction of the Sixth Village. The detachment went in pursuit of the enemy. The operation was led by Petr Antonovich Balykov.

“Well, Grisha,” said the commander. - You will go with Alena Konashkova to reconnaissance. Find out where the enemy has stopped, what he is doing, what he is thinking of doing.

And now, a weary woman with a hoe and a sack wanders into the Sixth Village, and with her a boy dressed in an oversized padded jacket.

“They sowed millet, good people,” the woman complained to the policemen. - And try to raise these clearings with a little. It's not easy, oh it's not easy!

And no one, of course, noticed how the boy's keen eyes follow each soldier, how they notice everything.

Grisha visited five houses where the Nazis and policemen stayed. And I found out about everything, then I reported in detail to the commander. A red rocket soared into the sky. And in a few minutes everything was over: the partisans drove the enemy into a cunningly placed "bag" and destroyed it. The stolen goods were returned to the population.

Grisha also went to reconnaissance before the memorable battle near the Pokat River.

With a bridle, limping (a splinter hit the heel), the little shepherd scurried among the Nazis. And such hatred burned in his eyes that it seemed that she alone could incinerate enemies.

And then the scout reported how many cannons he saw on the enemy, where machine guns and mortars were stationed. And from partisan bullets and mines the invaders found their graves on Belarusian soil.

In early June 1943, Grisha Podobedov, together with partisan Yakov Kebikov, went on reconnaissance to the area of ​​​​the village of Zalesye, where a punitive company from the so-called Dnepr volunteer detachment was stationed. Grisha made his way into the house, where drunken punishers had a party.

The partisans silently entered the village and completely destroyed the company. Only the commander escaped, he hid in a well. In the morning, a local grandfather pulled him out of there, like a rotten cat, by the scruff of the neck ...

This was the last operation in which Grisha Podobedov participated. On June 17, together with foreman Nikolai Borisenko, he went to the village of Ruduya Bartolomeevka for flour prepared for the partisans.

The sun shone brightly. A gray bird fluttered on the roof of the mill, watching people with cunning little eyes. The broad-shouldered Nikolai Borisenko had just loaded a heavy sack onto the cart when a pale miller came running.

- Punishers! he breathed.

The foreman and Grisha grabbed their machine guns and rushed into the bushes that grew near the mill. But they were noticed. Vicious bullets whistled, cutting alder branches.

- Lie down! - Borisenko gave the command and fired a long burst from the machine gun.

Grisha, aiming, gave short bursts. He saw how the punishers, as if stumbling upon an invisible barrier, fell, beveled by his bullets.

- So you, so you! ..

Suddenly the sergeant-major let out a dull gasp and clutched his throat. Grisha turned around. Borisenko twitched all over and fell silent. His glazed eyes now looked indifferently at the high sky, and his hand dug, as if stuck, in the box of the machine gun.

The bush, where Grisha Podobedov alone is now left, was surrounded by enemies. There were about sixty of them.

Grisha gritted his teeth and raised his hand. Several soldiers immediately rushed towards him.

“Oh, you Herods! What did you want?! the partisan shouted and slashed at them point-blank with his machine gun.

Six Nazis fell under his feet. The rest lay down. Bullets whistled over Grisha's head more and more often. The partisan was silent, did not respond. Then the emboldened enemies rose again. And again, under well-aimed automatic fire, they pressed into the ground. And the machine is already out of ammo. Grisha pulled out a pistol. — I give up! he shouted.

A tall and thin, like a pole, policeman ran up to him at a trot. Grisha shot him right in the face. For some elusive moment, the boy looked around at a rare bush, clouds in the sky and, putting a gun to his temple, pulled the trigger ...

About the exploits of the young heroes of the Great Patriotic War, you can read in the books:

Avramenko A.I. Messengers from captivity: a story / Per. from Ukrainian - M .: Young Guard, 1981. - 208 e .: ill. - (Young heroes).

Bolshak V.G. Guide to the Abyss: Dokum. story. - M .: Young Guard, 1979. - 160 p. - (Young heroes).

Vuravkin G.N. Three pages from the legend / Per. from Belarusian. - M .: Young guard, 1983. - 64 p. - (Young heroes).

Valko I.V. Where are you flying, crane?: Dokum. story. - M .: Young Guard, 1978. - 174 p. - (Young heroes).

Vygovsky B.C. The fire of a young heart / Per. from Ukrainian — M.: Det. lit., 1968. - 144 p. - (School library).

Children of wartime / Comp. E.Maximova. 2nd ed., add. — M.: Politizdat, 1988. — 319 p.

Ershov Ya.A. Vitya Korobkov - pioneer, partisan: a story - M .: Military Publishing, 1968 - 320 p. - (Library of a young patriot: About the Motherland, exploits, honor).

Zharikov A.D. Feats of the Young: Stories and Essays. - M .: Young Guard, 1965. - 144 e .: ill.

Zharikov A.D. Young partisans. - M .: Education, 1974. - 128 p.

Kassil L.A., Polyanovsky M.L. Street of the youngest son: a story. — M.: Det. lit., 1985. - 480 p. - (Military library of a student).

Kekkelev L.N. Countryman: The Tale of P. Shepelev. 3rd ed. - M .: Young Guard, 1981. - 143 p. - (Young heroes).

Korolkov Yu.M. Partisan Lenya Golikov: a story. - M .: Young Guard, 1985. - 215 p. - (Young heroes).

Lezinsky M.L., Eskin B.M. Live, Vilor!: a story. - M .: Young Guard, 1983. - 112 p. - (Young heroes).

Logvinenko I.M. Crimson dawns: dokum. story / Per. from Ukrainian — M.: Det. lit., 1972. - 160 p.

Lugovoi N.D. Burnt childhood. - M .: Young Guard, 1984. - 152 p. - (Young heroes).

Medvedev N.E. Eaglets of Blagovskoe forest: dokum. story. — M.: DOSAAF, 1969. — 96 p.

Morozov V.N. A boy went to reconnaissance: a story. - Minsk: State Publishing House of the BSSR, 1961. - 214 p.

Morozov V.N. Volodin front. - M .: Young Guard, 1975. - 96 p. - (Young heroes).

School in the partisan region.

T. Cat. , From the book "Children-Heroes",
Getting bogged down in a swampy swamp, falling and rising again, we went to our own - to the partisans. The Germans were raging in their native village.
And for a whole month the Germans bombed our camp. “The partisans have been destroyed,” they finally sent a report to their high command. But invisible hands again derailed trains, blew up weapons depots, destroyed German garrisons.
Summer was over, autumn was already trying on its motley, crimson outfit. It was hard for us to imagine September without school.
- Here are the letters I know! - eight-year-old Natasha Drozd once said and drew a round "O" on the sand with a stick and next to it - an uneven gate "P". Her friend drew some numbers. The girls played school, and neither one nor the other noticed how sadly and warmly the commander of the partisan detachment Kovalevsky was watching them. In the evening, at the council of commanders, he said:
- The children need a school ... - and added quietly: - You can’t deprive them of their childhood.
On the same night, Komsomol members Fedya Trutko and Sasha Vasilevsky went on a combat mission, with Pyotr Ilyich Ivanovsky with them. They returned a few days later. Pencils, pens, primers, problem books were taken out of pockets, from the bosom. Peace and home, great human concern wafted from these books here, among the swamps, where there was a mortal battle for life.
- It's easier to blow up the bridge than to get your books, - Pyotr Ilyich gleefully flashed his teeth and took out ... a pioneer bugle.
None of the partisans said a word about the risk they were exposed to. There could be an ambush in every house, but it never occurred to any of them to refuse the task, to return empty-handed. ,
Three classes were organized: first, second and third. School ... Stakes driven into the ground, intertwined with willows, a cleared area, instead of a board and chalk - sand and a stick, instead of desks - stumps, instead of a roof over your head - a disguise from German aircraft. In cloudy weather, mosquitoes overwhelmed us, sometimes snakes crawled in, but we paid no attention to anything.
How the children valued their school-glade, how they caught every word of the teacher! Textbooks accounted for one, two per class. In some subjects there were no books at all. Much was remembered from the words of the teacher, who sometimes came to the lesson directly from a combat mission, with a rifle in his hands, belted with cartridges.
The soldiers brought everything they could get for us from the enemy, but there was not enough paper. We carefully removed the birch bark from fallen trees and wrote on it with coals. There was no case that someone did not do their homework. Only those guys who were urgently sent to reconnaissance missed classes.
It turned out that we had only nine pioneers, the remaining twenty-eight guys had to be accepted as pioneers. From the parachute donated to the partisans, we sewed a banner, made a pioneer uniform. The partisans accepted the pioneers, the commander of the detachment himself tied the ties to the newly arrived. The headquarters of the pioneer squad was immediately elected.
Without stopping classes, we were building a new dugout school for the winter. A lot of moss was needed to insulate it. They pulled him out so that his fingers hurt, sometimes they tore off his nails, painfully cut his hands with grass, but no one complained. No one demanded excellent studies from us, but each of us made this demand on ourselves. And when the heavy news came that our beloved comrade Sasha Vasilevsky had been killed, all the pioneers of the squad took a solemn oath: to study even better.
At our request, the squad was given the name of a deceased friend. On the same night, in revenge for Sasha, the partisans blew up 14 German vehicles and derailed the train. The Germans threw 75 thousand punishers against the partisans. The blockade began again. Everyone who knew how to handle weapons went into battle. Families retreated into the depths of the marshes, and our pioneer team also retreated. Our clothes were frozen, we ate flour boiled in hot water once a day. But as we retreated, we seized all our textbooks. Classes continued at the new location. And we kept the oath given to Sasha Vasilevsky. During the spring examinations, all the pioneers answered without hesitation. Strict examiners - the commander of the detachment, the commissar, the teachers - were pleased with us.
As a reward, the best students were given the right to participate in shooting competitions. They fired from the squad leader's pistol. It was the highest honor for the guys.

During the Great Patriotic War, when the homeland was seized by enemies, they began to establish their own rules, dictate how to live, kill, rob, burn their homes, take them captive to a foreign land, all as one stood up to defend their country.

There were a lot of children among those who defended the Motherland.

Here are their names:

Lenya Golikov , Kostya Kravchuk , Valya Kotik , Nadya Bogdanova , Viktor Khomenko , Nina Kukoverova , Vasily Korobko
Alexander Borodulin, Volodya Dubinin , Yuta Bondarovskaya, Galya Komleva , Sasha Kovalev , Marat Kazei
Zina Portnova, Lucy Gerasimenko, Lara Mikheenko
and many others.

Lenya Golikov

He grew up as an ordinary village boy. When the German invaders occupied his native village of Lukino, in the Leningrad region, Lenya collected several rifles on the battlefield, got two bags of grenades from the Nazis to hand them over to the partisans. And he himself remained in the partisan detachment. Fought on an equal footing with adults. On August 15, 1942, a young partisan blew up a German car carrying an important Nazi general. The briefcase contained military documents. They were urgently sent to Moscow. After some time, a radiogram came from Moscow, it said that everyone who captured such important documents should be presented to the highest award. In Moscow, of course, they did not know that they were captured by one Lenya Golikov, who was only fourteen years old. So the pioneer Lenya Golikov became a hero of the Soviet Union.

Kostya Kravchuk

On June 11, 1944, units leaving for the front lined up on the central square of Kyiv. And before this battle formation, they read the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on awarding the pioneer Kostya Kravchuk with the Order of the Red Banner for saving and preserving two battle banners of rifle regiments during the occupation of the city of Kyiv ... Retreating from Kyiv, two wounded soldiers entrusted Kostya with banners. And Kostya promised to keep them. At first I buried it in the garden under a pear tree: it was thought that ours would soon return. But the war dragged on, and, having dug up the banners, Kostya kept them in a barn until he remembered an old, abandoned well outside the city, near the Dnieper. Wrapping his priceless treasure in sacking, covering it with straw, at dawn he got out of the house and with a canvas bag over his shoulder led a cow to a distant forest. And there, looking around, he hid the bundle in the well, covered it with branches, dry grass, turf ... And throughout the long occupation, the pioneer carried his hard guard at the banner, although he fell into a round-up, and even fled from the train in which the people of Kiev were driven to Germany . When Kyiv was liberated, Kostya, in a white shirt with a red tie, came to the military commandant of the city and unfurled the banners in front of the seen and yet amazed fighters. On June 11, 1944, the newly formed units that went to the front were handed the banners saved by Kostya.

Valya Kotik

Nadia Bogdanova

She was executed twice by the Nazis, and fighting friends for many years considered Nadya dead. She even erected a monument. It's hard to believe, but when she became a scout in the partisan detachment of `Uncle Vanya` Dyachkov, she was not yet ten years old. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis. Everything, noticing, everything, remembering, brought the most valuable information to the detachment. And then, together with partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects.
The first time she was captured when, together with Vanya Zvontsov, she hung out a red flag on November 7, 1941 in Vitebsk, occupied by the enemy. They were seized, beaten with ramrods, tortured, and when they brought them to the ditch to shoot, she no longer had any strength left - she fell into the ditch, for a moment, ahead of the bullet. Vanya died, and the partisans found Nadya alive in the ditch...
The second time she was captured at the end of the 43rd. And again torture: they poured ice water over her in the cold, burned a five-pointed star on her back. Considering the scout dead, the Nazis, when the partisans attacked Karasevo, abandoned her. Came out of her, paralyzed and almost blind, the locals. After the war in Odessa, Academician V.P. Filatov restored Nadia's sight.
After 15 years, she heard on the radio how the head of intelligence of the 6th detachment Slesarenko - her commander - said that the soldiers of their dead comrades would never forget, and named Nadya Bogdanova among them, who saved his life, wounded ...
Only then did she show up, only then did people learn about what an amazing fate she was, Nadia Bogdanova, who was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals.

Viktor Khomenko

Pioneer Vitya Khomenko passed his heroic path of struggle against the fascists in the underground organization "Nikolaev Center". ... At school, in German, Vitya was "excellent", and the underground instructed the pioneer to get a job in the officer's canteen. He washed dishes, sometimes served the officers in the hall and listened to their conversations. In drunken arguments, the fascists blurted out information that was of great interest to the "Nikolaev Center". The officers began to send the quick, smart boy on errands, and soon made him a messenger at the headquarters. It could not have occurred to them that the most secret packages were the first to be read by the underground workers at the turnout ... Together with Shura Kober, Vitya received the task to cross the front line in order to establish contact with Moscow. In Moscow, at the headquarters of the partisan movement, they reported on the situation and told about what they had observed on the way. Returning to Nikolaev, the guys delivered a radio transmitter, explosives, and weapons to the underground workers. Again, fighting without fear or hesitation. On December 5, 1942, ten underground workers were captured by the Nazis and executed. Among them are two boys - Shura Kober and Vitya Khomenko. They lived as heroes and died as heroes. The Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree - posthumously - was awarded by the Motherland to her fearless son. The name of Vitya Khomenko is the school where he studied.

Nina Kukoverova

Every summer, mother took Nina and her younger brother and sister from Leningrad to the village of Nechepert, where there is clean air, soft grass, where honey and fresh milk ... Roar, explosions, flames and smoke hit this quiet region in the fourteenth summer of the pioneer Nina Kukoverova . War! From the first days of the arrival of the Nazis, Nina became a partisan intelligence officer. Everything that she saw around, she remembered, reported to the detachment. A punitive detachment is located in the village of Gory, all approaches are blocked, even the most experienced scouts cannot get through. Nina volunteered to go. She walked a dozen and a half kilometers on a snow-covered plain, a field. The Nazis did not pay attention to the chilled, tired girl with a bag, and nothing escaped her attention - neither the headquarters, nor the fuel depot, nor the location of the sentries. And when at night the partisan detachment set out on a campaign, Nina walked next to the commander as a scout, as a guide. Fascist warehouses flew into the air that night, the headquarters flared up, punishers fell, struck down by furious fire. More than once, Nina, a pioneer, was awarded the medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War”, I degree, on combat missions. The young heroine is dead. But the memory of the daughter of Russia is alive. She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class. Nina Kukoverova is forever enrolled in her pioneer team.

Vasily Korobko

Chernihiv region. The front came close to the village of Pogoreltsy. On the outskirts, covering the retreat of our units, the company held the defense. The boy brought the cartridges to the fighters. His name was Vasya Korobko. Night. Vasya sneaks up to the school building occupied by the Nazis. He sneaks into the pioneer room, takes out the pioneer banner and hides it securely. Outskirts of the village. Under the bridge - Vasya. He pulls out the iron brackets, saws the piles, and at dawn from the shelter he watches the bridge collapse under the weight of the fascist armored personnel carrier. The partisans were convinced that Vasya could be trusted, and they entrusted him with a serious task: to become a scout in the enemy's lair. At the headquarters of the Nazis, he heats stoves, chop wood, and he looks closely, remembers, and transmits information to the partisans. The punishers, who planned to exterminate the partisans, forced the boy to lead them into the forest. But Vasya led the Nazis to an ambush of the police. The Nazis, mistaking them for partisans in the dark, opened furious fire, killed all the policemen and themselves suffered heavy losses. Together with the partisans, Vasya destroyed nine echelons, hundreds of Nazis. In one of the battles, he was hit by an enemy bullet. The Motherland awarded her little hero, who lived a short but such a bright life, with the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" of the 1st degree.

Alexander Borodulin

There was a war. Above the village where Sasha lived, enemy bombers hooted angrily. The native land was trampled by an enemy boot. Sasha Borodulin, a pioneer with the warm heart of a young Leninist, could not put up with this. He decided to fight the Nazis. Got a rifle. Having killed a fascist motorcyclist, he took the first military trophy - a real German machine gun. Day after day he fought his unequal battle. And then he met the partisans. Sasha became a full-fledged fighter of the detachment. Together with the partisans, he went on reconnaissance. More than once he went on the most dangerous missions. Many destroyed enemy vehicles and soldiers were on his account. For the performance of dangerous tasks, for the courage, resourcefulness and courage shown, Sasha Borodulin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in the winter of 1941. The punishers tracked down the partisans. For three days the detachment left them, twice escaped from the encirclement, but the enemy ring closed again. Then the commander called in volunteers to cover the withdrawal of the detachment. Sasha stepped forward first. Five took the fight. One by one they died. Sasha was left alone. It was still possible to retreat - the forest was nearby, but every minute that delayed the enemy was so dear to the detachment, and Sasha fought to the end. He, allowing the Nazis to close a ring around him, grabbed a grenade and blew them up and himself.

Volodya Dubinin

Vladimir Dubinin was born on August 29, 1927. The boy spent all his childhood in Kerch. His father was a hereditary sailor, in 1919, as part of a partisan detachment, he fought with the White Guards.
The boy was only fourteen years old when the Patriotic War broke out. His father volunteered for the Navy, and Volodya stayed with his mother in Kerch. In the first months of the war, fascist troops were already approaching Kerch. The inhabitants of the city were actively preparing for the underground struggle. With the capture of Kerch, the partisans went to the Starokarantinsky underground quarries near the city. Already on November 7, 1941, an underground partisan fortress appeared in the deep bowels. It was from here that the people's avengers made their bold attacks.
The persistent and courageous boy made sure that he was accepted into the partisans. The young scout operated in the Kletsky and Serafimovsky regions. The partisans loved Volodya, for them he was a common son. With his friends Tolya Kovalev and Vanya Gritsenko, Volodya Dubinin went to intelligence. Young scouts delivered valuable information about the location of enemy units, the number of German troops, etc. The partisans, based on this data, planned their combat operations. In December 1941, intelligence helped the detachment to give a worthy rebuff to the punishers. In the galleries during the battle, Volodya Dubinin brought ammunition to the soldiers, and then replaced a seriously wounded soldier. Legends were told about the guy: how he led a detachment of fascists who were looking for partisans by the nose; how he knew how to slip unnoticed past enemy posts; as he could accurately remember the number of several Nazi units that were located in different places, Volodya was small in stature, so he could get out through very narrow manholes. Thanks to Volodya's information, Soviet artillery suppressed the points of the German division, which rushed to Stalingrad. For this he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
The Nazis tried to destroy the partisans: they walled up and mined all the entrances to the quarry. In these terrible days, Volodya Dubinin showed great courage and resourcefulness. The boy organized a group of young pioneer scouts. The guys got out through secret passages to the surface and collected the information necessary for the partisans. Once Volodya learned that the Germans decided to flood the quarries with water. The partisans managed to build dams out of stone.
The boy knew the location of absolutely all exits to the surface. When Kerch was liberated in January 1942, and the sappers began to clear the area around the quarries, Volodya volunteered to help them. On January 4, a young partisan, helping a sapper, died himself, blown up by a German mine.
The boy was buried in a partisan mass grave, not far from the same quarries.

Yuta Bondarovskaya

The war caught Yuta on vacation with her grandmother. Yesterday she was playing carelessly with her friends, and today circumstances have demanded that she take up arms. Yuta was a liaison, and then a scout in a partisan detachment that operated in the Pskov region. Disguised as a beggar boy, the fragile girl wandered around the enemy rear, memorizing the location of military equipment, guard posts, headquarters, communication centers. Adults would never be able to deceive the enemy's vigilance so cleverly. In 1944, in a battle near the Estonian farm, Yuta Bondarovskaya died a heroic death along with her older comrades. Utah was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, and the Partisan of the Patriotic War, 1st Class.

Galya Komleva

In the Luga district of the Leningrad region, the memory of the brave young partisan Gali Komleva is honored. She, like many of her peers during the war years, was a scout, supplied the partisans with important information. The Nazis tracked down Komleva, grabbed her, threw her into a cell. Two months of continuous interrogations, beatings, bullying. Gali was required to give the names of partisan liaisons. But the torture did not break the girl, she did not utter a word. Galya Komleva was mercilessly shot. She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.

Sasha Kovalev

He was a graduate of the Solovetsky Jung School. Sasha Kovalev received his first order - the Order of the Red Star - for the fact that the engines of his torpedo boat No. 209 of the Northern Fleet never failed during 20 combat sorties at sea. The second award, posthumous, - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree - was awarded to the young sailor for a feat that an adult has the right to be proud of. This was in May 1944. Attacking a fascist transport ship, Kovalev's boat received a collector hole from a shell fragment. Boiling water was pouring out of the torn casing, the engine could stall at any minute. Then Kovalev closed the hole with his body. Other sailors arrived to help him, the boat kept moving. But Sasha died. He was 15 years old.

Marat Kazei

The authors are sculptor S. Selikhanov, architect
V. Volchek. The monument depicts the last battle of the hero.
In one hand, Marat still holds an already useless machine gun, in which there are no more cartridges left, the other has already been raised above his head, bringing for the last throw at the hated fascists approaching him.
In Soviet times, the monument was very famous.
Near it, they were accepted as pioneers, solemn rulers were held, wreaths and flowers were laid, and inspired poems were read.

Zina Portnova

The war found the Leningrad pioneer Zina Portnova in the village of Zuya, where she came for the holidays - this is not far from the Obol station in the Vitebsk region. In Obol, an underground Komsomol youth organization `Young Avengers` was created, and Zina was elected a member of its committee. She participated in daring operations against the enemy, in sabotage, distributed leaflets, conducted reconnaissance on the instructions of the partisan detachment ... It was December 1943. Zina was returning from a mission. In the village of Mostishche, a traitor betrayed her. The Nazis seized the young partisan and tortured her. The answer to the enemy was Zina's silence, her contempt and hatred, her determination to fight to the end. During one of the interrogations, choosing the moment, Zina grabbed a pistol from the table and fired at the Gestapo at point-blank range. The officer who ran into the shot was also killed on the spot. Zina tried to escape, but the Nazis caught up with her... The brave young pioneer was brutally tortured, but until the last minute she remained steadfast, courageous, unbending. And the Motherland posthumously noted her feat with her highest title - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Lucy Gerasimenko

She did not derail enemy fuel tanks, did not shoot at the Nazis. She was still small. Her name was Lucy Gerasimenko. But everything she did brought the day of our victory over the fascist invaders closer. Lusya became an indispensable assistant to the underground. She carried out various assignments: either she took leaflets or medicines to a conditional place, then she handed over reports, then she pasted leaflets on fence posts, walls of houses. Everything is simple and complex at the same time. One careless step and death. Expect no mercy from the Nazis Once in October, they whispered: in the central square, the Germans hanged partisans. One is just a boy. It was Vodya Shcherbatsevich. He was hanged with his mother, she treated prisoners of war, and then, together with her son, transported them to the partisans. Issued by a traitor. Lucy was cautious, resourceful, courageous. So it went day after day, until the provocateur betrayed their family to the Germans. It happened on December 26, 1942. An eleven-year-old girl was shot by the Nazis.

Lara Mikheenko

For the operation of reconnaissance and explosion of the railway bridge across the Drissa River, after the war, a Leningrad schoolgirl Larisa Mikheenko was presented with a government award. But the Motherland could not present the award to her brave daughter: in the Decree on awarding Larisa with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree there is a bitter word: `Posthumously`...
The war cut the girl off from her hometown: in the summer she went on vacation to her uncle in the Pustoshkinsky district of the Pskov region, but she could not return - the Nazis occupied the village. Lara's uncle agreed to serve the occupying authorities, and was appointed local headman. His old mother and pioneer niece, who condemned him for this, were evicted from his uncle's house and sent to live in a bathhouse.
The pioneer dreamed of breaking out of Hitler's slavery, making her way to her own. Together with a friend, they decided to go to the local partisan detachment.
At the headquarters of the 6th Kalinin brigade, the commander, Major P. V. Ryndin, at first refused to accept `so small`: well, what kind of partisans are they!
But how much even its very young citizens can do for the Motherland! The girls were able to do what strong men could not. Dressed in rags, Lara walked around the villages, finding out where and how the guns were located, sentries were placed, which German cars were moving along the highway, what kind of trains and with what cargo they came to the Pustoshka station. She also participated in military operations.
At the beginning of November 1943, Larisa and two other partisans went on reconnaissance to the village of Ignatovo and stopped at the house of a trusted person. Larisa remained outside for observation. Enemies suddenly appeared (as it turned out later, one of the local residents handed over the partisan turnout). Larisa managed to warn the men inside, but was captured. In the ensuing unequal battle, both partisans were killed. Larisa was brought to the hut for interrogation. Lara had a hand-held fragmentation grenade in her coat, which she decided to use. However, the grenade thrown by the girl did not explode...
On November 4, 1943, Larisa Dorofeevna Mikheenko, after interrogation, accompanied by torture and humiliation, was shot.