Below are images of Zoya’s hero of the SU Diploma, and her grave, with memorial statue. The statue is particularly striking, and shows her, bare-breasted, head back, as she is in the photo of her dead body…
A month later Zoya’s body was brought to Moscow and buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. A monument has been placed on her grave, and on its black marble are carved the words of Nikolai Ostrovsky, the words which Zoya once wrote as a motto, as a behest in her notebook, and which she justified by her short life and by her death: “Man’s dearest possession is life, and it is given to him to live but once…So he must live that, dying, he can say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world—the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.”
From The Story of Zoya and Shura written by her Mother, L. Kosmodemyanskaya. This website has a full transcript of the rare book telling her life story.
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