Background
KOSMODEM’YANSKAYA, Zoya was born on September 13, 1923 in Osinovyye Gai, Tambov Oblast. Daughter of an office worker
KOSMODEM’YANSKAYA, Zoya was born on September 13, 1923 in Osinovyye Gai, Tambov Oblast. Daughter of an office worker
10th grade at Secondary School Nr 201 in Moscow.
October 1941 volunteered for partisan unit: crossed the front into enemy-occupied territory at the village of Obukhovo near Naro-Fominsk with a group of Communist Youth League partisans. Late November 1941 captured by German troops in the village of Petrishchevo, Vereya Rayon, Moscow Oblast while on a mission to destroy a German military supply dump. Kosmodem’yanskaya did not reveal her real name, but called herself Tanya.
Subject of various works by Soviet writers, sculptors and artists. Also inspired motion picture Zoya: her former school and many pioneer organizations named after her. Monument to her erected on the Minsk Highway near village Petrishchevo.
Religion is a cause of numerous conflicts and bloody wars throughout the history of mankind.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Youth League member from 1938.