Yefrosinya Zenkova

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Savelyevna and the family name is Zenkova.
Yefrosinya Zenkova
Ефрасіння Зянькова
Born22 December 1923
Ushaly village, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Belarus)
Died19 April 1984 (aged 60)
Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Belarus)
Nationality Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

Yefrosinya Savelyevna Zenkova (Belarusian: Ефрасіння Савельеўна Зянькова, romanized: Jefrasinnia Saveljeǔna Ziankova, Russian: Ефроси́нья Саве́льевна Зенько́ва; 22 December 1923 – 19 April 1984) was a Soviet Belarusian partisan who was secretary of the underground Komsomol resistance organization nicknamed the "Young Avengers" during the Second World War. She was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 1 July 1958 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.[1]

  1. ^ Sakaida, Henry (2012-04-20). Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780966922.