Portnova Zinaida Martynovna

Zina Portnova (Portnova Zinaida Martynovna) (February 20, 1926, Leningrad - January 10, 1944 Vitebsk region) - Soviet underground, an active participant Obolskoy anti-fascist youth organization. In early June 1941 came to the school holidays in the village Zuya, near the station Obol Vitebsk region. In 1942, a member of Obolskoy underground organization 'Young Avengers' (head E.S. Zenkov), a member of its committee. In the cellar was admitted to the Komsomol.
Working in the dining room refresher training of German officers at the direction of the underground poisoned food. During the proceedings, wanting to prove their innocence to the Germans, had eaten the poisoned soup. Miraculously survived. Since August 1943 the scout guerilla group and they. K. E. Voroshilov. In December 1943, returning from its mission to identify the causes of the failure of the organization 'Young Avengers', captured in the village Mostische and identified certain Anna Khrapovitsky. At one of the interrogations by the Gestapo in the village of Woe grabbed a pistol from the desk of the investigator, shot him and two other Nazis tried to escape, was seized. Brutally tortured and shot in prison in the city of Vitebsk.
July 1, 1958 Zinaida Martinovna Portnova was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Order of Lenin