Zinaida Portnova | |
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Born | |
Died | 15 January 1944 | (aged 17)
Organization | Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
Zinaida Martynovna Portnova (Russian: Зинаида Мартыновна Портнова; 20 February 1926 – 15 January 1944) was a Soviet teenager, partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. She is known for sabotaging and poisoning Nazis during World War II before being captured, tortured and then killed at the age of 17.