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 [...]
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who was a Russian female partisan. She joined the partisan movement at the age of 17, and carried out acts of sabotage behind enemy lines. She was captured in 1941 in German territory, and tortured in the village of Petrischevo. She gave away no information, and was executed by hanging. She was left [...]
