5 pioneer heroes. Pioneers-heroes of the Great Patriotic War

Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War

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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 time has come severe trials 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 resilient. 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

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 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 participated in the battles and invariably showed courage, fearlessness, along with experienced demolition workers, mined 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 marked 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 convoy with food (250 wagons) in 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 passenger car, in which there was a German major general engineering troops Richard von Wirtz. 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 higher command and other important military papers. Introduced to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. January 24, 1943 in 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 overtook her terrible war. 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, a little heroine big war, died a heroic death. 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 Leningrad region- the counselor was left high school Anna Petrovna Semyonova. To communicate with the partisans, she picked up her most reliable guys, and the first among them was Galina Komleva. Cheerful, brave, inquisitive girl for her six school years was awarded six times with books with the signature: "For excellent study." The young messenger brought assignments from the partisans to her leader, and she forwarded her reports to the detachment along with bread, potatoes, products, which were obtained with great difficulty. Once, when a messenger from the partisan detachment did not arrive at the meeting place on time, Galya, half-frozen, made her way to the detachment herself, 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 off the girl 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 the young girls were able to do what they could not strong men. Dressed in rags, Lara walked around the villages, finding out where and how the guns were located, sentries were placed, what german cars moving along the highway, what kind of trains and with what cargo they come 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. For fulfillment dangerous assignments, for his courage, resourcefulness and courage, Sasha Borodulin in the winter of 1941 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. 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 bare feet on the cold floor, he quietly went 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 of him 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 they were watching keen eyes little boys behind every soldier, as they all notice.

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 ...

It was 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 gazed indifferently into sky high, and the hand dug, as if stuck, in the box of the machine.

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. The outside younger son: 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).

On February 17, 1944, the brave pioneer hero Valya Kotik died in battle. For the feat, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - posthumously. We remember the stories of all the young heroes who were honored the highest award countries

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Valya Kotik

Valya Kotik was born on February 11, 1930 in the Ukrainian village of Khmelevka. When the war began, Valya had just entered the sixth grade, but from the very first days he began to fight the German invaders. In the autumn of 1941, together with his comrades, he killed the head of the field gendarmerie by throwing a grenade at the car in which he was traveling. Since August 1943 he was in the partisan detachment named after Karmelyuk, was wounded twice. In October 1943, he discovered an underground telephone cable, which was soon blown up, and the connection between the invaders and Hitler's headquarters in Warsaw was cut off. He also contributed to the undermining of six railway echelons and a warehouse. On October 29, 1943, while on patrol, he noticed punishers who were about to raid the detachment. Having killed the officer, he raised the alarm, and thanks to his actions, the partisans managed to repulse the enemy. In the battle for the city of Izyaslav on February 16, 1944, he was mortally wounded and died on February 17. In 1958, Valentin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Marat Kazei

After the death of his mother, Marat and his sister went to the partisan detachment. The boy went on reconnaissance, both alone and with a group. Participated in raids, undermined the echelons. In January 1943 he received a medal for bravery, because, wounded, together with his comrades, he made his way through the enemy ring. And in May 1944, Marat died. Returning from a mission with the intelligence commander, his group stumbled upon the Germans. The commander was killed immediately, and Marat, firing back, lay down in a hollow. There was nowhere to go in the open field, besides, Marat was seriously wounded. While there were cartridges, he kept the defense, and when the store was empty, he picked up his last weapon- two grenades. He threw one at the Germans, and left the other. When the Germans came very close, he blew himself up along with the enemies. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded in 1965 - 21 years after his death.

Lenya Golikov

Lenya Golikov was a brigade scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade. Golikov started out as a simple sentinel and observer, but quickly learned the explosive business. Participated in 27 combat operations. In December 1942, the partisan detachment in which Golikov was located was surrounded by the Germans. But the partisans managed to break through the encirclement and go to another area. The forces after such a struggle were weakened, 50 people remained in the ranks. The commander of the detachment decided not to set up patrols at night, so as not to attract attention. In the morning, the sleep of the partisans was interrupted by the roar of a machine gun: someone informed the Germans about their arrival in the village. In that battle, the entire headquarters of the partisan brigade was killed. Among the fallen was Lenya Golikov. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union Lena was awarded posthumously by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 2, 1944.

Zina Portnova

Zina participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the Nazis. Working in the canteen of retraining courses for German officers, at the direction of the underground, she was able to poison more than a hundred officers. Wanting to prove her innocence to the Germans, the girl tried the poisoned soup and miraculously survived. Since August 1943, she joined the partisan detachment named after K.E. Voroshilov. In December 1943, she was captured in the village of Mostische and identified by a certain Anna Khrapovitskaya.

At one of the interrogations in the Gestapo, grabbing the investigator's pistol from the table, she shot him and two more Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured. After being tortured, she was shot in a prison in the city of Polotsk. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 1, 1958, Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Sasha Chekalin

Sasha Chekalin was captured along with the inhabitants of Peskovatskoye at the beginning of the war, and on the way to Likhvin under escort, in front of the city, he persuaded everyone to flee into the forest.

In July of the 41st, Sasha volunteered for a fighter detachment, then for the Peredovoi partisan detachment, where he became a scout: he was engaged in collecting intelligence information about the deployment and number German units, their weapons, routes of movement. On an equal footing with adults, he participated in ambushes, mined roads, undermined communications and derailed trains.

In early November, I caught a cold and came to native home lie down. Noticing the smoke from the chimney, the headman reported this to the German military commandant's office. The arriving German units surrounded the house and offered Sasha to surrender. In response, Sasha opened fire, and when the cartridges ran out, he threw a grenade, but it did not explode. He was captured and taken to the military commandant's office. For several days he was tortured, trying to get the necessary information from him. But having achieved nothing, they staged a demonstrative execution in the city square. Sasha was hanged on November 6, 1941. was hanged. Before his death, Sasha managed to shout: “Do not take them to Moscow! Don't defeat us!" Alexander Chekalin was posthumously awarded the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union on February 4, 1942.

Volodya Dubinin
Marat Kazei
Lenya Golikov
Zina Portnova
Sasha Borodulin
Galya Komleva
Valya Kotik

AT Soviet time When the pioneer organization was the only one uniting the younger generation of our country, the names of the guys who died heroically defending our Motherland during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were on everyone's lips. Pioneer detachments, which united each class of each Soviet school, often bore the name of a pioneer hero. Their names were given to the streets, for example, in Nizhny Novgorod there is Vali Kotik street. Films were made about them. Who were these pioneer heroes? Five of them were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union: Lenya Golikov, Marat Kazei, Valya Kotik and Zina Portnova. Others have also received great honors. Lots of hero guys. Today we will remember a few of them.

Volodya Dubinin

The pioneer hero Volodya Dubinin was one of the members of the partisan detachment that fought in the quarries near the city of Kerch. He fought on a par with adults: he brought ammunition, water, food, went on reconnaissance. Since Volodya was still very small, he could get to the surface through very narrow quarry manholes and unnoticed by the Nazis and reconnoiter the combat situation.

The boy died on January 2, 1942, helping to clear the passages to the quarries. Volodya was buried in a mass grave of partisans in the center of the Kamysh-Burun port in the city of Kerch. Posthumously, the young hero was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Removed in 1962 Feature Film"Street of the youngest son". It was a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Lev Kassil and Max Polyanovsky, dedicated to the pioneer hero Volodya Dubinin.

Marat Kazei

The Nazis broke into the Belarusian village where Marat lived with his mother, Anna Aleksandrovna Kazya. In the fall, Marat no longer had to go to the fifth grade of the school. Building educational institution The Nazis turned it into their barracks.

For communication with the partisans, Marat's mother Anna Alexandrovna was captured, and soon the boy 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, a Komsomol member Ada, pioneer 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.

The boy participated in the battles and invariably showed courage, fearlessness, together with experienced demolition workers, he mined the railway.

Marat died in battle, fighting to the last bullet, and when he had only one grenade left, he let the enemies get closer and blew them up with him.

For courage and bravery pioneer Marat Kazei was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And in the capital of Belarus, the city of Minsk, a monument to the young hero was erected.

Lenya Golikov

Lenya grew up in the village of Lukino in the Novgorod region, on the banks of the Polo River, which flows into the legendary Ilmen Lake. When the enemy captured his native village, the boy went to the partisans.

More than once he went to reconnaissance, brought important information into the partisan detachment, enemy trains and cars flew downhill, bridges collapsed, enemy warehouses burned.

There was a battle in his life that Lenya fought one on one with a fascist general. A grenade thrown by a boy knocked out a car. A Nazi with a briefcase in his hands got out of it and, shooting back, rushed to run. Lenya chased after him. He pursued the enemy for almost a kilometer and finally killed him. There were some very important documents in the briefcase. The headquarters of the partisans immediately sent them by plane to Moscow.

In his short life there were still many fights, and he never flinched, fighting shoulder to shoulder with adults. Lenya died in a battle near the village of Ostraya Luka, Pskov Region, in the winter of 1943. On April 2, 1944, a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was published on awarding the partisan pioneer Lena Golikov the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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, and conducted reconnaissance on the instructions of the partisan detachment.

In 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 overtook 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.

Sasha Borodulin

Over the village where Sasha lived, enemy bombers were constantly flying. The Nazis trampled on their native land. The young pioneer Sasha Borodulin could not put up with this, he decided to fight the Nazis. Having killed a fascist motorcyclist, he took the first military trophy - a real German machine gun. Day after day he conducted reconnaissance. More than once he went on the most dangerous missions. On his account there were many destroyed cars and enemy soldiers.

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 along with him.

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.

Galya Komleva

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 pioneers, and the first among them was Galina Komleva. Cheerful, brave, inquisitive girl. During her six school years, she was awarded six times with books signed: "For excellent study."

The young messenger brought assignments from the partisans to her leader, and she forwarded her reports to the detachment along with bread, potatoes, products, which were obtained with great difficulty. Once, when a messenger from the partisan detachment did not arrive at the meeting place on time, Galya, half-frozen, made her way to the detachment herself, handed over a report and, having warmed up a little, hurried back, carrying a new task to the underground.

Together with Komsomol member 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. After being severely beaten, they threw him into a cell, and in the morning they took him out again for interrogation. Galya did not say anything to the enemy, did not betray anyone, and for this the young patriot was shot.

The Motherland marked the feat of Gali Komleva with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Valya Kotik

He was born on February 11, 1930 in the village of Khmelevka, Shepetovsky district, Khmelnitsky region. He studied at school number 4 in the city of Shepetovka, was a recognized leader of the pioneers, his peers. 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. Having looked closely at the boy, the communists 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. The pioneer, 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 patriotic war 1st class, medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 2nd class.

Valya Kotik died as a hero, and the Motherland posthumously honored him with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In front of the school where this brave pioneer studied, a monument was erected to him. And today the pioneers salute the hero.

In 1957, the feature film "Eaglet" was shot, the main character of which was the young partisan Valya Kotko (prototype Hero of the Soviet Union Valya Kotik).

All events in Nizhny Novgorod, dedicated to the Day victory,

Pioneers-heroes have always been a special pride of party ideologists and supporters of communism. These children were real examples for the younger generation, and the main stake has always been placed on its correct upbringing in the USSR.

Teenagers in pioneer ties who committed in different time feats in the name of the Soviet Motherland and the Communist Party, personified the high moral qualities of the Soviet man: steadfastness in the fight against the ideological enemy, unquestioning adherence to the precepts of Lenin, readiness to give his life for the common cause.

Everyone knew the names of the most famous pioneer heroes soviet man. They were inscribed in the Book of Honor of the Lenin Pioneer Organization (1954). The first in the list of names of pioneer heroes is the name of Pavlik Morozov, who was killed with fists for helping the Soviet government. Then no one doubted his feat.

It wasn't until years later that they began to emerge. real facts about these young people. For example, that Pavlik Morozov was never a pioneer at all. Now many historians are arguing whether the legendary pioneer heroes existed at all or whether their images were invented for the sake of socialist propaganda.

Valya Kotik (1930-1944)

Valentin Kotik, a native of the village of Khmelevka (Ukraine), from the sixth grade of high school went straight to the front. to the armed forces due to young age they didn’t take him, so Valya joined the partisans. During the war years, many teenagers did their best to help defend their homeland.

The cat excelled in this especially. He was wounded more than once. During the years of service, he committed bold and desperate deeds that saved the detachment of them. Karmelyuk, in which he served. He was mortally wounded in the battle for Izyaslav. Posthumously Hero of the Soviet Union.

Lenya Golikov (1926-1943)

Leonid Golikov was born in the village of Lukino (Novgorod region). After graduating from the 7th grade, he went to work at a plywood factory. During the war, Lenya was also a partisan, and also a scout. Personally destroyed about eight dozen Germans, 2 fascist food warehouses, a lot of equipment.

In 1942, the boy happened strange story. The commander of his detachment wrote a report to the commander about another feat of Golikov: on the Luga-Pskov highway, he blew up a Nazi car and shot German General Richard von Wirtz from a machine gun. A couple of years later, it turned out that Wirtz was alive. His name appeared in many documents.

Leonid Golikov died in battle in the village of Ostraya Luka. He is also a hero of the USSR and is included in the list of pioneer heroes, although he crossed the 15-year mark already at the beginning of the war.

Marat Kazei (1929-1944)

This pioneer hero was born in the Byelorussian SSR, in the village of Stankovo. Marat's parents were activists and ardent communists. At the same time, both were subjected to repressions, were arrested: the father - "for wrecking", the mother - for sympathy for the ideas of Trotskyism. During the war, Marat's mother hid partisans in the house more than once, treated the wounded. She was hanged for this by the Germans.

boy with older sister Ariadnoy went to the partisan detachment, where he fought until his death. Kazei was a scout, participated in dangerous sabotage and raids against the Nazis. During the war years, he distinguished himself by unparalleled courage; seriously wounded, he raised the soldiers to attack.

Marat died in the village of Khoromitsky, where he was supposed to meet with a messenger. His comrade was killed immediately. Kazei was surrounded by one. When the cartridges ran out, he waited for the Nazis to come closer, and blew himself up with a grenade along with them. Only 2 decades later, for his feat, he received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Volodya Dubinin (1927-1942)

Vladimir was born in Kerch; During the war, he was also a partisan. For his colleagues, he became a real son of the regiment. Volodya was a skilled scout, possessed excellent memory, knew how to be invisible to the Nazis.

The Soviet government raised wonderful people. great job in raising a new person
labor and heroism performed pioneer organization named after V.I. Lenin. Young pioneers during the war years went voluntarily to the front, attributing years to themselves. They worked in the rear at the factories from morning till night, giving products to the soldiers under the slogan "Everything for the front, everything for the Victory!" These were Soviet children brought up in the ideals of devotion Soviet Motherland, ready for a feat and for work in the name of the most just society on earth. Not that, today - "row for yourself, for your country and people - don't give a damn, it's bad for you - run abroad." Today they are raising boys for the bourgeoisie, bad boys. And that time was - Time of heroes.

Yes, it was they who became the people of the future, they stepped into immortality.

Pioneer-heroes during the Great Patriotic War

Valya Kotik is the youngest Hero of the Soviet Union. He was 14 years old.

Already in the first days of the war, under the protection Brest Fortress distinguished pupil of the musical platoon, 14-year-old Petya Klypa. Many pioneers participated in partisan detachments, where they were often used as scouts and saboteurs, as well as in underground activities; of the young partisans, Marat Kazei, Volodya Dubinin, Lenya Golikov and Valya Kotik are especially famous (all of them died in battle, except for Volodya Dubinin, who was blown up by a mine; and all of them, except for the older Lenya Golikov, were 13-14 years old at the time of death) .

It was not uncommon for teenagers school age fought in the military units(the so-called "sons and daughters of the regiments" - the story of the same name by Valentin Kataev is known, the prototype of which was 11-year-old Isaac Rakov).

For military merits, tens of thousands of children and pioneers were awarded orders and medals:
Order of Lenin were awarded - Tolya Shumov, Vitya Korobkov, Volodya Kaznacheev; Order of the Red Banner - Volodya Dubinin, Yuli Kantemirov, Andrei Makarihin, Kostya Kravchuk;
Order of the Patriotic War 1st class —Petya Klypa, Valery Volkov, Sasha Kovalev; Order of the Red Star - Volodya Samorukha, Shura Efremov, Vanya Andrianov, Vitya Kovalenko, Lenya Ankinovich.
Hundreds of pioneers have been awarded
Medal "Partisan of the Great Patriotic War",
Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"- over 15,000
"For the defense of Moscow"- over 20,000 medals
Four pioneer heroes were awarded the title
Hero of the Soviet Union:
Lenya Golikov, Marat Kazei, Valya Kotik, Zina Portnova.

Yuta Bondarovskaya

Wherever the blue-eyed girl Yuta went, her red tie was invariably with her ...
In the summer of 1941, she came from Leningrad for a vacation to a village near Pskov. Here overtook Utah formidable news: war! Here she saw the enemy. 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.
Returning from the task, she immediately tied a red tie. And as if strength was added! Utah supported tired fighters ringing pioneer song, a story about his native Leningrad ...
And how happy everyone was, how the partisans congratulated Yuta when a message came to the detachment: the blockade had been broken! Leningrad survived, Leningrad won! On that day and blue eyes Yuta and her red tie shone like never before.
But the land was still groaning under the enemy yoke, and the detachment, together with units of the Red Army, left to help the partisans of Estonia. In one of the battles - near the Estonian farm Rostov - Yuta Bondarovskaya, the little heroine of the great war, a pioneer who did not part with her red tie, died the death of the brave. The Motherland awarded her heroic daughter posthumously with the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class.

Galya Komleva

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 pioneers, 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 messenger brought assignments from the partisans to her leader, and she forwarded her reports to the detachment along with bread, potatoes, products, which were obtained with great difficulty. Once, when a messenger from the partisan detachment did not arrive at the meeting place on time, Galya, half-frozen, made her way to the detachment herself, handed over a report and, having warmed up a little, hurried back, carrying a new task to the underground.
Together with Komsomol member 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. After being severely beaten, they threw him into a cell, and in the morning they took him out again for interrogation. Galya did not say anything to the enemy, she did not betray anyone. The young patriot was shot.
The Motherland marked the feat of Gali Komleva with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

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 combat banners of rifle regiments during the occupation of the city of Kyiv ...
Retreating from Kyiv, two wounded soldiers entrusted banners to Kostya. 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 difficult 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 soldiers.
On June 11, 1944, the newly formed units leaving for the front were given replacements rescued by Kostya.

Lara Mikheenko

For the operation of reconnaissance and explosion of the railway. bridge over the Drissa River, a Leningrad schoolgirl Larisa Mikheenko was presented with a government award. But the Motherland did not have time to present the award to her brave daughter ...
The war cut off the girl from her hometown: in the summer she went on vacation to the Pustoshkinsky district, but she could not return - the Nazis occupied the village. The pioneer dreamed of breaking out of Hitler's slavery, making her way to her own. And one night with two older friends left the village.
At the headquarters of the 6th Kalinin brigade, the commander, Major P. V. Ryndin, at first turned out 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 ...
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 of the 1st degree, there is a bitter word: "Posthumously."

Vasya 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. His little hero who lived a short, but such bright life, the Motherland awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" of the 1st degree.

Sasha 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 conducted reconnaissance. More than once he went on the most dangerous missions. A lot of destroyed cars 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.

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 retreat 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. Sasha Borodulin died, but his memory lives on. The memory of heroes is eternal!

Vitya Khomenko

Pioneer Vitya Khomenko passed his heroic path of struggle against the Nazis 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 Nazis 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 underground workers at the turnout ...
Together with Shura Kober, Vitya was given the task of crossing 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.

Volodya Kaznacheev

1941 ... In the spring I finished the fifth grade. In the fall he joined a partisan detachment.
When, together with his sister Anya, he came to the partisans in the Kletnyansky forests, in the Bryansk region, the detachment said: “Well, replenishment! , they stopped joking (Elena Kondratyevna was killed by the Nazis).
There was a "partisan school" in the detachment. Future miners and demolition workers were trained there. Volodya perfectly mastered this science and, together with his senior comrades, derailed eight echelons. He had to cover the retreat of the group, stopping the pursuers with grenades ...
He was connected; often went to Kletnya, delivering valuable information; waiting for darkness, posting flyers. From operation to operation he became more experienced, more skillful.
For the head of the partisan Kzanacheev, the Nazis put a reward, not even suspecting that their brave opponent was just a boy. He fought alongside adults until the very day when motherland was not freed from fascist evil spirits, and rightfully shared with adults the glory of the hero-liberator native land. Volodya Kaznacheev was awarded the Order of Lenin, the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree.

Nadia Bogdanova

She was executed twice by the Nazis, and fighting friends long years considered Nadia 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, noticing everything, remembering everything, and 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 beat her with ramrods, tortured her, and when they brought her to the ditch - to shoot, she had no 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. They took her out, paralyzed and almost blind, 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 the people who worked with her learn about what an amazing fate she was, Nadya Bogdanova, who was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals.

Valya Zenkina

The Brest Fortress was the first to take the blow of the enemy. Bombs and shells exploded, walls collapsed, people died both in the fortress and in the city of Brest. From the first minutes, Valin's father went into battle. He left and did not return, he died a hero, like many defenders of the Brest Fortress.
And the Nazis forced Valya to sneak into the fortress under fire in order to convey to its defenders the demand to surrender. Valya made her way into the fortress, spoke about the atrocities of the Nazis, explained what weapons they had, indicated their location and remained to help our soldiers. She bandaged the wounded, collected cartridges and brought them to the fighters.
There was not enough water in the fortress, it was divided by throat. I was painfully thirsty, but Valya again and again refused her sip: the wounded needed water. When the command of the Brest Fortress decided to take the children and women out of the fire, to transport them to the other side of the Mukhavets River - there was no other way to save their lives - the little nurse Valya Zenkina asked to be left with the soldiers. But an order is an order, and then she vowed to continue the fight against the enemy until complete victory.
And Valya kept her oath. Various tests fell on her lot. But she survived. Withstood. And she continued her struggle already in the partisan detachment. She fought bravely, on a par with adults. For courage and courage, the Motherland awarded her young daughter with the Order of the Red Star.

Nina Kukoverova

Every summer, Nina and her younger brother and sister were taken from Leningrad to the village of Nechepert, where fresh air, soft grass, where honey and fresh milk ... Roar, explosions, flames and smoke hit this quiet land 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 the mountain, 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, slain by fierce fire.
More than once, Nina went on combat missions - a pioneer, awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree.
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.

Arkady Kamanin

He dreamed of heaven when he 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 Vasilievich 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 he used the airfield in any case to take to the skies. 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 the strongest 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!

Lida Vashkevich

An ordinary black bag would not have attracted the attention of visitors to the local history museum if it had not been for a red tie lying next to it. A boy or girl will involuntarily freeze, an adult will stop and read a yellowed certificate issued by the commissioner
partisan detachment. The fact that the young mistress of these relics, pioneer Lida Vashkevich, risking her life, helped to fight the Nazis. There is another reason to stop near these exhibits: Lida was awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree.
... In the city of Grodno, occupied by the Nazis, the communist underground operated. One of the groups was led by Lida's father. Messengers from the underground, partisans came to him, and every time the commander's daughter was on duty at the house. From the side to look - played. And she vigilantly peered, listened, whether the policemen, the patrol, were approaching,
and, if necessary, signaled to her father. Dangerous? Highly. But compared to other tasks, it was almost a game. Lida got paper for flyers by buying a couple of leaflets in different stores, often with the help of her friends. A pack will be collected, the girl will hide it at the bottom of a black bag and deliver it to the agreed place. And the next day the whole city reads
words of truth about the victories of the Red Army near Moscow, Stalingrad.
A girl warned the people's avengers about the round-ups, bypassing safe houses. She traveled by train from station to station to convey an important message to partisans and underground workers. She carried the explosives past the fascist posts in the same black bag, filling it to the top with coal and trying not to bend so as not to arouse suspicion - coal is easier than explosives ...
That's what kind of bag ended up in the Grodno Museum. And the tie that Lida then wore in her bosom: she could not, did not want to part with it.

Names of pioneer heroes
(partial list)

Aksyon Timonin

Alyosha Kuznetsov

Albert Kupsha

Arkady Kamanin - the youngest pilot of the Second World War

Valery Volkov

Valya Zenkina

Valya Kotik, Hero of the Soviet Union

Vanya Andrianov

Vanya Vasilchenko

Vanya Gritsenko

Vasya Korobko

Vasya Shishkovsky

Vitya Kovalenko

Vitya Korobkov

Vitya Khomenko

Vitya Cherevichkin

Volodya Dubinin

Volodya Kaznacheev

Volodya Kolyadov

Volodya Samorukh

Volodya Shcherbatsevich

Galya Komleva

Grisha Hakobyan

Dima Potapenko

Zhenya Popov

Zina Portnova, Hero of the Soviet Union

Camilia Shaga

Kirya Baev

Kolya Myagotin

Kolya Ryzhov

Kostya Kravchuk

Lara Mikheenko

Lenya Ankinovich

Lenya Golikov, Hero of the Soviet Union

Lida Vashkevich

Lida Matveeva

Lucy Gerasimenko

Marat Kazei, Hero of the Soviet Union

Maria Mukhina

Marx Krotov

Misha Gavrilov

Nadia Bogdanova

Nina Kukoverova

Nina Sagaydak

Pavlik Morozov

Pavlusha Andreev

Petr Zaichenko

Musya Pinkenzon

Sasha Borodulin

Sasha Kovalev

Sasha Kolesnikov

Tikhon Baran

Tolya Shumov

Shura Kober

Shura Efremov

Yuta Bondarovskaya