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Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (Russian: Зо́я Анато́льевна Космодемья́нская, IPA: [ˈzojə kəsmədʲɪˈmʲjanskəjə]; September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan.
Dec 25, 2023 · On November 29, 1941, resistance fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became a Soviet hero after she was hanged by German troops in the Russian village of Petrishchevo.
Sep 7, 2021 · Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was just a teenage girl, being 18 years old when she was executed by the Nazis for her involvement in Partisan activities. She had been caught attempting to burn a barn in a...
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became the first female recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union gold star medal for her actions in World War II.
Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya (1923–1941) Soviet partisan who, after her capture and execution by German troops, became a symbol of heroism in the Soviet Union 's war against Nazi Germany. Name variations: Tanya; Kosmodemjamskaja; Kosmodemianskia. Pronunciation: Kos-MO-dem-YAHN-sky-ah.
KOSMODEMYANSKAYA, ZOYA (1923 – 1941), partisan girl known as "Tanya" in World War II and canonized as Russian war heroine; also known as the Soviet Joan of Arc, she was posthumously awarded the honorary title Hero of the Soviet Union.
The martyrdom of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya galvanized the Soviet people as they forged ahead in their march to victory against the imperialist juggernaut of Nazi Germany. Her bravery and sacrifice inspired innumerable tributes from all fields and media. The 1944 Lev Arnshtam film “Zoya” tells the story of her arrest and execution.
When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in...
Feb 16, 2021 · Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941), was one of the most revered martyrs of the Soviet Union. As the story goes, in October 1941, the 18-year-old Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl from a priest’s family, joined the Soviet partisan movement to fight the Nazis, who were successfully advancing across the Soviet territory at the time.
Posthumously awarded: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was the first woman during the Second World War who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
