Pioneer heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Nadya Bogdanova class lesson (1st grade) on the topic Nadya Bogdanova’s feat summary

When you once again read through the written evidence of human heroism or cowardice, courage or insignificance shown during the Second World War, you begin to choke from overwhelming feelings - so many of them, different, are bubbling inside. But some stories are more striking than others.

Are children awarded for heroism in our country today? Yes, from time to time you hear good news: a nine-year-old girl brought four children out of a fire, and a ten-year-old boy pulled out kids stuck in a field during a flood; A 16-year-old teenager saved a little girl who fell from a bridge into an icy spring river.

This news warms the soul. After all, they mean that, despite the total decline of culture and the progressive ills of society, we are still able to educate Man. And maybe these were the children who helped us survive the most brutal bloodshed of the 20th century?

Her name was Nadya

20-30 years ago, schoolchildren learned the names of pioneer heroes by heart. They named pioneer detachments and squads in their honor, composed songs and poems about them, and drew wall newspapers with descriptions of their exploits. These were children-legends, role models that anyone needs to an ordinary child. They were not fictional characters and were not the fruit of someone's imagination. Their lives were cut short and mutilated by a war that spared no one.

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Nadya Bogdanova was a simple Belarusian girl who was not even 10 years old when the war began. In 1941, the orphanage in which she lived was evacuated to Frunze. During one of the stops, Nadya and several children got off the train to go to the front.

Children forced to live in orphanages grow up early. There they need to survive and rely only on themselves: there are no loving parents nearby who could make their life carefree. The front seemed to many of them at that time the personification of freedom, heroism, and feat. And also – adult life without strict supervision. Of course, in reality everything was not like that. But what should we take from children, if some adults, soaring in romantic fantasies of glory and beautiful scenes of battles, went to the front with similar thoughts?

With her comrades, Nadya joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not refuse even such help. Surprisingly, she not only did not become a burden for them - together with her young friends she managed to destroy dozens of trucks with ammunition and several hundred Nazis. And this is a 10-year-old girl.

Sometimes you look at a ten-year-old child and are horrified by the very thought that he can hold a grenade in his hands, fearlessly dismantle an anti-tank mine, skillfully pretend to be a beggar who wanders among the Nazis, and at the same time he notices and remembers everything in order to later bring the most valuable information yours. And here is one little fragile girl among the animals who have already tortured hundreds of thousands of children to death.

Where did she have so much courage? Maybe he’s just such a fearless child who never saw anything good in his orphanage life? And why is he so brave because he was not given maternal affection and tenderness?

No. Children do not become gentle/cowardly/brave just depending on whether they were raised by their parents or by strangers. Children can be brave or not so brave depending on their innate vectors and how these vectors develop.

Nadya Bogdanova was a girl with visual and skin vectors. Flexible and nimble, she went on missions where it was impossible to do without her innate dexterity. Nadya grasped everything on the fly, learning the partisan “craft”, and was the leader of a teenage detachment.

And she was also visually very scared. It is unbearably scary to find herself in a crowd of fascists, where if something happened, no one would help her - neither the commander of the partisan detachment, nor the legendary Marshal Zhukov, nor the leader of the proletariat. Nadya trembled like an autumn leaf, but she went there because she understood: the partisans could not live without her. Without her, it is impossible to defeat the enemy in this small but such an important part of her homeland.

First execution

It was autumn 1941. The holiday was approaching October revolution. The command of the partisan detachment decided to hang red flags in Vitebsk to raise the morale of local residents suffering from the actions of the enemy garrison. The partisans were not yet able to strike the enemy. But also inaction.

However, there was a plan, but there was no one who could go to the city to carry out the plan. The Nazis did not allow the partisans to approach the city, and there they searched everyone who could arouse suspicion. The only people who didn’t call him were children dressed in beggarly rags, holding dirty toys in their hands and whining truthfully as soon as the policemen’s gaze turned to them.

Nadya and her friend Vanya (he was 12) went on a mission together. They were ordered to return alive.

It was snowy that day. The children pulled sleighs loaded with brooms. Among a dozen identical brooms, there were three special ones, in the rods of which red panels were discreetly inserted. Vanya hobbled along funnyly, trying to save energy (the road was not close - about 10 km), and Nadya laughed and walked easily and freely. But my soul was uneasy.

In the city no one bothered them, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking out of habit, but Nadya boldly led their “soray.” They managed to hang all the flags without attracting attention.

On the way back, the girl decided to get a cigarette, because the partisans suffered so much without tobacco... This became their mistake. Already when leaving Vitebsk, the children were stopped by a policeman. He discovered tobacco and understood everything.

The children were interrogated, threatened with execution and shooting over their heads. They demanded that the partisans be handed over. Both were silent, only flinching after the next shot. The morning after the interrogation, the young intelligence officers were led to execution.

- Have pity on the children, animals! - the prisoners shouted to the executioners, but they could not do anything, falling from the bullets into a common pit. Vanya fell after another shot. Nadya lost consciousness a second before the bullet was supposed to pierce her chest.

A partisan post found Nadya alive in the pit with the dead.

One more chance

Who wouldn’t be broken by the event that happened to Nadya? Where can a simple little girl get strength, who doesn’t even have parents who could console her? Where can I get the strength to continue the fight?

It seems normal to us that a girl might want to evacuate and live in the rear in order to heal her wounded soul. However, Nadya did not do this: moreover, the brave girl demanded that she be taught how to shoot at targets and throw grenades at the enemy. And when the time came, she rushed into reconnaissance, participated in battles and saved the life of intelligence chief Slesarenko, who was wounded during the operation.

There is nothing surprising in Nadya’s actions for a person who has the knowledge of Yuri Burlan. A girl with a visual vector is born with a feeling of fear - for herself and her life. We don’t know how Nadya lived in the orphanage, how her visual vector developed. But the universal grief, the powerful unity of the people, the idea of sacrificing oneself for the sake of a happy future for the Motherland, possible only in a country with a urethral mentality - all this contributed to the fact that fear was supplanted by the desire to give without caring about oneself.

Caring for the wounded, seeing the death and suffering of thousands of people, a simple girl with a visual vector was able to put a common goal above her own fears. She pushed him out in boundless compassion and became as steadfast as rock, not saying a word about the partisans during the inhuman torture...

A very expensive price to pay for the development of the visual vector - so it seems to us. But THEY, these child heroes, were not afraid to die.

In February 1942, Nadya went to blow up a railway bridge. On her way back she was stopped by police. After searching the girl, they found a tiny piece of explosive in her jacket. At that very moment, in front of the policemen, the bridge flew into the air.

The girl was brutally tortured: they burned a five-pointed star on her back, poured ice water in the cold, thrown onto hot coals. Having failed to achieve a confession, they threw the tortured child into a snowdrift, believing that the girl was dead. Nadya was found by partisans who were sent to help her. The dying woman was brought to the village. The money was left to the local peasant women. A powerful desire to live prevailed, and the girl, who was near death, survived again. True, she could no longer fight - Nadya practically lost her sight (after the war, Academician V.P. Filatov returned her sight).

For military exploits, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and medals.

War and peace in a single organism

We can admire the courage and bravery of the child heroes who helped our grandfathers and great-grandfathers win. Marvel at their resilience, sympathize with their grief and short, broken lives. And continue to live as you lived - with your fears and views directed inward.

Her name was Nadya

20-30 years ago, schoolchildren learned the names of pioneer heroes by heart. They named pioneer detachments and squads in their honor, composed songs and poems about them, and drew wall newspapers with descriptions of their exploits. These were children-legends, role models that any ordinary child needs. They were not fictional characters and were not the fruit of someone's imagination. Their lives were cut short and mutilated by a war that spared no one.

First execution

It was autumn 1941. The holiday of the October Revolution was approaching. The command of the partisan detachment decided to hang red flags in Vitebsk to raise the morale of local residents suffering from the actions of the enemy garrison. The partisans were not yet able to strike the enemy. But also inaction.

Nadya and her friend Vanya (he was 12) went on a mission together. They were ordered to return alive.

In the city no one bothered them, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking out of habit, but Nadya boldly led their “soray.” They managed to hang all the flags without attracting attention.

A partisan post found Nadya alive in the pit with the dead.

One more chance

A very expensive price to pay for the development of the visual vector - so it seems to us. But THEY, these child heroes, were not afraid to die.

The girl was brutally tortured: they burned a five-pointed star on her back, doused her with ice water in the cold, and threw her on hot coals. Having failed to achieve a confession, they threw the tortured child into a snowdrift, believing that the girl was dead. Nadya was found by partisans who were sent to help her. The dying woman was brought to the village. The money was left to the local peasant women. A powerful desire to live prevailed, and the girl, who was near death, survived again. True, she could no longer fight - Nadya practically lost her sight (after the war, Academician V.P. Filatov returned her sight).

For military exploits, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and medals.

War and peace in a single organism

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova(married - Kravtsova) (December 28, 1931 - August 21, 1991) - pioneer hero. The youngest participant in the Great Patriotic War, awarded the title of pioneer hero.

Nadezhda Bogdanova was born in the Belarusian SSR on December 28, 1931. In 1941, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the orphanage in which she lived was evacuated to the city of Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR. During one of the stops, Nadya and several children from Vitebsk and Mogilev orphanages got off the train to go to the front.

She was executed twice by the Nazis, and her comrades considered her dead for many years and even erected a monument. When she became a scout in the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade, she was not yet ten years old. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing and remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment; in the detachment they called her Lazurchik. And then, together with partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects. In subsequent operations, she was entrusted with weapons - she walked around with a pistol and a grenade in her belt. In one of the night battles, she saved the wounded commander of the reconnaissance department Ferapont Slesarenko. Attempted sabotage in Vitebsk.

After getting off the train in Vitebsk, the orphanage residents tried to independently take part in the defense of the city. They moved freely around Vitebsk captured by the Nazis, knowing that the Germans did not attach importance to children. The children planned to blow up a German ammunition depot located in Vitebsk. They found explosives, but did not know how to use them. Before reaching their destination, the explosives exploded and claimed the lives of all the children. Only Nadya survived. Later she was accepted into the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade.

First execution.

The Nazis carefully guarded the approaches to the city, searched everyone, and even sniffed them. If a suspect's hat smelled of smoke or gunpowder, he was considered a partisan and was shot on the spot. There was less attention to children, so we decided to assign this task 10-year-old Nadya Bogdanova and 12-year-old Vanya Zvontsov.At dawn on November 7, 1941, the partisans brought the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave us a sled in which brooms were neatly placed. Among them were three brooms, with red cloth wrapped around their bases and rods on top. According to the partisans' idea, children had to sell brooms to divert the eyes of the fascists.

Nadya and Vanya entered the city without any problems. Small children with sleds did not arouse any particular suspicion among any of the fascists. Vanya, who had recently joined the partisan detachment, was noticeably nervous every time the Nazis looked in their direction. The more experienced Nadya tried to encourage the boy. To remove the suspicions of the Germans looking in their direction, Nadya with a sled approached a group of fascists and offered them to buy brooms. They began to laugh and point their guns in her direction, after which one of them drove her away in broken Russian.

All day they walked around the city and looked closely at buildings in the city center where they could hang red flags. When evening came and it became dark, they got to work. Overnight, the guys planted flags at a railway station, a vocational school and an abandoned cigarette factory. When dawn came, the flags of the USSR were already flying on these buildings. Having completed the task, the children hurried to the partisan detachment to report on the completed task. When they, having already left the city, went out onto the high road, the Nazis caught up with them and searched them. Having discovered the cigarettes that the children had taken from the cigarette factory for the partisans, they guessed who they were taking them to and began to interrogate them, after which they took them to Gorodok. The guys cried all the way. At the headquarters they were interrogated by the head of the regional gendarmerie, putting the children against the wall and shooting above their heads. After interrogation, he ordered the children to be shot. They were placed in a basement where there were many Soviet prisoners of war. The next day, everyone was taken out of Gorodok to be shot.

Nadya and Vanya stood by the ditch under the gunpoint of the Nazis. The children held hands and cried. A split second before the shot, Nadya lost consciousness and fainted. Some time later, Nadya woke up among the dead, including Vanya Zvontsov. Exhausted, she headed towards the forest, where the partisans found her. Since then, the squad for a long time did not allow her to carry out tasks on her own.

Reconnaissance and combat in Balbeki.

After capturing populated areas of the Byelorussian SSR, the Nazis installed firing points there, mined roads, and dug tanks into the ground. In one of these settlements - in the village of Balbeki - it was necessary to conduct reconnaissance and establish where the Germans had camouflaged cannons and machine guns, where the sentries were stationed, and from which side it was better to attack the village. The command decided to send the partisan intelligence chief Ferapont Slesarenko and Nadya Bogdanova on this mission. Nadya, dressed as a beggar, was supposed to go around the village, and Slesarenko was supposed to cover her retreat in a small forest not far from the village. The Nazis easily let the girl into the village, believing that she was one of the homeless children who walk around the villages in the cold, collecting food in order to somehow feed themselves. Nadya went around all the yards, collected alms, and remembered everything she needed. In the evening she returned to the forest to Slesarenko. A partisan detachment was waiting for her there, to which she reported information.

At night, the partisans fired machine-gun fire at the fascists from both sides of the village. Then Nadya took part in a night battle for the first time, although Slesarenko did not let her go one step away from him. In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded in left hand: He fell and lost consciousness for some time. Nadya bandaged his wound. A green rocket soared into the sky, which was a signal from the commander to all partisans to retreat into the forest. Nadya and the wounded Slesarenko tried to leave for the detachment, but in the deep snowdrifts Slesarenko became exhausted and lost a lot of blood. He ordered Nadya to leave him and go to the detachment for help. Having placed fir branches under the commander, Nadya went to the detachment.

The detachment was approximately 10 kilometers away. It was difficult to get there quickly through snowdrifts and frost at night. After walking about three kilometers, Nadya wandered into a small village. Near one of the houses where the police were having dinner, there was a horse and sleigh. Having crept up to the house, Nadya got into the sleigh and returned to the wounded Slesarenko. Having climbed into the sleigh, they returned to the detachment together.

Second execution.

In February 1942 (according to other sources - 1943) Nadya, together with the partisan bombers, was given the order to destroy railroad bridge in Karasevo. When the girl mined it and began to return to the squad, she was stopped by police. Nadya began to pretend to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in her backpack. They began to interrogate Nadya, at that moment there was an explosion and the bridge flew into the air right in front of the policemen. The police realized that it was Nadya who had mined him, and, tying him up, they put him in a sleigh and took him to the Gestapo. There she was tortured for a long time, a star was burned on her back, she was doused with ice water in the cold, and thrown onto a hot stove. Having failed to obtain information from her, the Nazis threw the tortured, bloodied girl out into the cold, deciding that she would not survive. Nadya was picked up by residents of the village of Zanalyuchki, who came out and cured her. Nadya could no longer participate in the war, because after torture she practically lost her sight.

After the war.

3 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Nadya was sent for treatment to Odessa. In Odessa, academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov partially restored her vision. Returning to Vitebsk, Nadya got a job at a factory. For a long time, Nadya did not tell anyone that she fought with the Nazis.

15 years later, she heard on the radio how the intelligence chief of the 6th partisan detachment, Ferapont Slesarenko - her commander - said that the soldiers would never forget their dead comrades, and named among them Nadya Bogdanova, who saved his life, a wounded man. Only then did she show up.

Nadezhda Bogdanova, in an interview with Sergei Smirnov as part of the documentary “Stories of Heroism,” talks about her participation in the Great Patriotic War. 1965

She lived all her life in Vitebsk. She raised 1 natural and 7 adopted children. Since the late 1970s, she has been in active correspondence with the pioneers of the 35th school in the city of Bratsk, the Klemovskaya secondary school in the village of Novoklemovo, Moscow region, the 9th school in the city of Novopolotsk, the school in the city of Leninsk (now Baikonur) and others, as well as with local historians whom she helped restore the events that occurred in the Byelorussian SSR during the war. The pioneers of different schools called themselves “Bogdanovites” - in honor of Nadezhda Bogdanova. In 1965, she gave an interview to the writer Sergei Smirnov as part of the documentary series “Stories of Heroism,” in which she talked about her participation in the Great Patriotic War.

She died on August 21, 1991 - on the day of the August putsch in the USSR. After her death, several schools organized a fundraiser for the opening of a monument to Nadezhda Bogdanova. Currently, nothing is known about the fate of the monument.

Nadezhda Bogdanova at a meeting with the pioneers of the 9th school in Novopolotsk, 1986.

Nadya Bogdanova served as the prototype for the heroine of the Japanese-Russian cartoon “First Squad”, filmed in 2009.

Just think about it, she was only 10 years old.

Yesterday my son and I walked in the park. The weather is great, the mood is wonderful, life is good. It was also good for the boys, who laughed on one of the benches, showing each other their cell phones. Well, good and good, that’s nice. But among the enthusiastic exclamations of “Cool!” and “Cool!” I suddenly heard: “Oh, Portnova Barbie!” And then a number of well-known surnames, but with wild additions: “Spider Kazei, Ninja Cat”...

I felt cold. Came up. I asked to see it. They, such fools, proudly and joyfully began to demonstrate a new Internet entertainment: pioneer heroes in stupid foreign entertainment images. A chill went down my spine. I had heard about such a game before, but then everything somehow died down, and I didn’t have a chance to see it with my own eyes. And here - on you, before your eyes wild pictures: The faces of our pioneer heroes are frozen in a new terrible outfit. I was especially shocked by the picture with Zina Portnova: a girl with a serious, courageous face, with a Barbie outfit attached to her head. It seemed that Zina was looking at me from the screen and asking: “Are you done?”...
-Do you know who these guys are? - I asked.
-Well, yes. Pioneer heroes.

And they calmly answered me that these pioneers were selling chips at a nearby kiosk.
“We just don’t know this one, Nadya Bogdanova,” the boys added. - What did she do?
I'm a bad psychologist, and I'm not a good teacher either. Probably, I should have responded somehow differently, more forcefully. After all, they say that with one phrase you can make a person reconsider his life. I couldn't do this. But she said:
- Nadya was in a partisan detachment. She died twice at the hands of the Nazis and was miraculously saved. She was brutally tortured, a star was burned on her back, she was doused with ice water in the cold and beaten with ramrods. But she did not give up hers. And you turn her into the Tinker Bell fairy. Someone will come to your great-grandfathers’ cemetery and draw mustaches and beards on their monuments. And then he will laugh at it.

And I walked away. The only thing that consoled me at that moment: I didn’t hear laughter behind me - the boys fell silent. And my son and I walked quite slowly.
And I kept thinking about Nadya. I can’t help but cite here her terrible and full of inhuman courage.
Three second births of Lazurchik

This girl is the youngest of those awarded the title of pioneer hero. After all, when the war began, Nadya was only nine years old. She was born in Belarus and before the war she lived in an orphanage.
In the first months of the war, the orphanage was evacuated to the city of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR. But Nadya was not going to live behind the adults’ backs. On the train, she gathered active children from other orphanages, and during one of the stops they slipped away, deciding to go to war. The guys wanted to get to the front line, but ended up in Vitebsk, behind enemy lines. But this did not stop them; they wanted to take revenge on the invaders. Then it seemed that the plan would not be difficult to carry out: the Germans did not let a single adult through without a search, but practically did not pay attention to children - you never know how many of them are here, homeless!
The guys decided to blow up a German ammunition depot. The explosives were obtained only in a way known to them. But they didn’t know how to use it - children are children. And trouble happened: the boys and girls had not yet reached the warehouse, and the explosives exploded. Everyone died except Nadya. This was her “first rebirth”...

By some miracle, the girl found a partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade (according to some sources - the 6th). And she persuaded her to join the ranks of the fighters.

Meanwhile, the holiday of the October Revolution was approaching. The city is captured by the enemy, the residents are tormented by the unknown, languishing, awaiting liberation. It was necessary to show them that liberation would come. And the partisans decided to hang three red flags in the city in honor of the holiday. This task was entrusted to ten-year-old Nadyushka and twelve-year-old Vanya Zvontsov. It was simply impossible for adults to get into the city: the Nazis searched everyone. And even if the hat smelled of gunpowder, they were immediately shot.

At dawn on November 7, 1941, two ragged children came to the city to sell brooms. They themselves were small, pathetic, and they were dragging a sled. What suspicion can there be here? Who would have thought that among the brooms there were three red banners that little people wanted to hang in a city captured by a fierce enemy? However, Vanya, not used to partisan work, I was very nervous. Nadya decided to calm him down. And, as soon as she saw the German patrol, she came up and asked to buy a broom from her. The Nazis laughed and drove her away.

And as soon as it got dark, the children began to complete the task. They hung the flags safely, but their concern for their own failed. Nadya snuck into the cigarette factory and collected a gift for the partisans, knowing that they had nothing to smoke. This became a fatal mistake.

Already on the road out of the city, the Nazis caught up with the guys and searched them. We found cigarettes. They didn’t talk, they immediately took me to headquarters. The children held hands and cried all the way.
At headquarters they were tortured, made to face the wall and shot over their heads. But having achieved nothing, they threw them into the basement with wounded Soviet prisoners for the night in order to deal with them the next day.
On the morning before the execution, the prisoners tried to shield the children with themselves.
-Animals! Spare the guys! - they shouted to the fascists and fell under their bullets...
Nadya lost consciousness from the horror she experienced. And this happened a fraction of a second before the shot prepared for her rang out...

After some time, the girl came to her senses. She lay with the dead. Among them was Vanechka Zvontsov. Nadya got out of the ditch and went into the forest, where the partisans found her. This is how her “second rebirth” happened...

After this terrible incident, the partisans for a long time did not let the girl go on missions alone. Ferapont Slesarenko, the partisan intelligence chief, was always with her. But it was very difficult to keep the brave, nimble girl inactive. Nadya was eager to take revenge on the Nazis.

One day, pretending to be a beggar, she brought information to the detachment, thanks to which the partisans realized that the opportune moment had come to strike the Nazis. And the blow was struck on the night following the reconnaissance.
In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded in the arm. He fell unconscious, and when he came to, he had already lost a lot of blood. Together with Nadya, they fell very far behind the partisans, who had already gone into the forest. Then Ferapont ordered the girl to leave him and go to the detachment for help. Nadya did just that. But the detachment was about ten kilometers away, and walking through deep snow turned out to be very difficult. Nadya walked about three kilometers and came across a small farm. Near one of the houses where the police were having dinner, the girl saw a horse harnessed to a sleigh. She slowly got into the sleigh, drove it into the forest, and found Slesarenko. And they returned to the squad together! Just think: a little girl saved an adult...

In February 1942, Nadya carried out another task: she had to blow up the bridge in Karasevo. The girl safely made her way to her destination and planted the explosives. But she didn’t have time to go far - she ran into policemen. They searched Nadya and found the remaining piece of explosives in her backpack. The partisan pretended that she had found him here on the road. And then, in front of the policemen’s eyes, the bridge flew into the air. They understood everything, tied up the girl and brought her to the German headquarters.
What Nadya experienced here... She was beaten with ramrods. They burned a star on his back. They put him on hot coals. They doused them with water in the cold. But they achieved nothing. A little heart that did not know maternal care, because Nadyushka grew up in an orphanage... Where did it find the strength to withstand all this?...

The Nazis, considering the bloody, unconscious girl dead, threw her out into the cold, because as our troops were already approaching, the animals had to retreat. Nadya was picked up by residents of the village of Zanalyuchki. And they went out! But Nadya could no longer participate in the war: she practically lost her sight. This is how her “third rebirth” happened...

And a few years after the war, Nadya was sent to Odessa, and there she got an appointment with academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov. The doctor largely restored her lost vision, Nadya could see again! She returned to Vitebsk, got a job at a factory and did not tell anyone that she had fought. But one day I heard a speech by Ferapont Slesarenko on the radio. He said that he would never forget his fallen comrades and among them named Nadya Bogdanova, thanks to whom he remained alive. That's when Nadya announced that she had survived...

She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and medals. She lived all her life in Vitebsk and raised four children. Nadezhda Bogdanova (Kravtsova) died on August 21, 1991. And her squad name was Lazurchik...

Bogdanova, Nadezhda Alexandrovna

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova (married Kravtsova) (December 28, 1931 - August 21, 1991) - pioneer hero. The youngest participant in the Great Patriotic War, awarded the title of pioneer hero.

She was executed twice by the Nazis, and her comrades considered her dead for many years and even erected a monument. When she became a scout in the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade, she was not yet ten years old. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing and remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment. And then, together with partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects. In subsequent operations, she was entrusted with weapons - she walked around with a pistol and a grenade in her belt. In one of the night battles, she saved the wounded commander of the reconnaissance department Ferapont Slesarenko.

Attempted sabotage in Vitebsk

After getting off the train in Vitebsk, the orphanage residents tried to independently take part in the defense of the city. They moved freely around Vitebsk captured by the Nazis, knowing that the Germans did not attach importance to children. The children planned to blow up a German ammunition depot located in Vitebsk. They found explosives, but did not know how to use them. The children did not have time to reach their destination: an explosion occurred, as a result of which the children died. Only Nadya survived. Later she was accepted into the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade.

Red flags in Vitebsk

On the eve of the upcoming holiday of the October Revolution, at a meeting of the partisan detachment, the fighters discussed who would go to Vitebsk and hang red flags in honor of the holiday on the buildings in which the Nazis lived. According to the commander of the detachment, Mikhail Ivanovich Dyachkov, the red flags hung in honor of the holiday were supposed to serve as a sign to the city residents that the war against the Nazi invaders was continuing in order to raise the fighting spirit of Vitebsk residents. The Nazis carefully guarded the approaches to the city, searched everyone, and even sniffed them. If a suspect's hat smelled of smoke or gunpowder, he was considered a partisan and was shot on the spot. There was less attention to children, so they decided to entrust this task to 10-year-old Nadya Bogdanova and 12-year-old Vanya Zvontsov. At dawn on November 7, 1941, the partisans brought the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave us a sled in which brooms were neatly placed. Among them were three brooms, with red cloth wrapped around their bases and rods on top. According to the partisans' idea, children had to sell brooms to divert the eyes of the fascists.

Nadya and Vanya stood by the ditch under the gunpoint of the Nazis. The children held hands and cried. A split second before the shot, Nadya lost consciousness. Some time later, Nadya woke up among the dead, including Vanya Zvontsov. Exhausted, she headed towards the forest, where the partisans found her. Since then, the squad for a long time did not allow her to carry out tasks on her own.

Reconnaissance and combat in Balbeki

In the captured settlements of Belarus, the Nazis set up firing points, mined roads, and dug tanks into the ground. In one of these settlements - in the village of Balbeki - it was necessary to conduct reconnaissance and establish where the Germans had camouflaged cannons and machine guns, where the sentries were stationed, and from which side it was better to attack the village. The command decided to send the partisan intelligence chief Ferapont Slesarenko and Nadya Bogdanova on this mission. Nadya, dressed as a beggar, was supposed to go around the village, and Slesarenko was supposed to cover her retreat in a small forest not far from the village. The Nazis easily let the girl into the village, believing that she was one of the homeless children who walk around the villages in the cold, collecting food in order to somehow feed themselves. Nadya went around all the yards, collected alms and remembered everything she needed. In the evening she returned to the forest to Slesarenko. A partisan detachment was waiting for her there, to which she reported information.

At night, the partisans fired machine-gun fire at the fascists from both sides of the village. Then Nadya took part in a night battle for the first time, although Slesarenko did not let her go one step away from him. In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded in his left arm: he fell and lost consciousness for some time. Nadya bandaged his wound. A green rocket soared into the sky, which was a signal from the commander to all partisans to retreat into the forest. Nadya and the wounded Slesarenko tried to leave for the detachment, but in the deep snowdrifts Slesarenko lost a lot of blood and was exhausted. He ordered Nadya to leave him and go to the detachment for help. Having placed fir branches under the commander, Nadya went to the detachment.

Mining the bridge in Karasevo

In February 1942 (according to other sources - 1943), Nadya, together with partisan demolitions, was given the order to destroy the railway bridge in Karasevo. When the girl mined it and began to return to the squad, she was stopped by police. Nadya began to pretend to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in her backpack. They began to interrogate Nadya, at that moment there was an explosion and the bridge flew into the air right in front of the policemen.
The police realized that it was Nadya who had mined him, and, tying him up, they put him in a sleigh and took him to the Gestapo. There she was tortured for a long time, a star was burned on her back, she was doused with ice water in the cold, and thrown onto a hot stove. Having failed to obtain information from her, the Nazis threw the tortured, bloodied girl out into the cold, deciding that she would not survive. Nadya was picked up by residents of the village of Zanalyuchki, who came out and cured her. Nadya could no longer participate in the war, because after torture she practically lost her sight.

After the war

3 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Nadya was sent for treatment to Odessa. In Odessa, academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov partially restored her vision. Returning to Vitebsk, Nadya got a job at a factory. For a long time, Nadya did not tell anyone that she fought with the Nazis.
15 years later, she heard on the radio how the intelligence chief of the 6th partisan detachment, Ferapont Slesarenko - her commander - said that the soldiers would never forget their dead comrades, and named among them Nadya Bogdanova, who saved his life, a wounded man. Only then did she show up.

She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and medals. The name of Nadya Bogdanova is included in the Book of Honor of the Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin.
She lived all her life in Vitebsk. She raised 1 natural and 7 adopted children. Since the late 1970s, she has been in active correspondence with the pioneers of the 35th school in the city of Bratsk, the Klemovskaya secondary school in the village of Novoklemovo, Moscow region, the 9th school in the city of Novopolotsk, the school in the city of Leninsk (now Baikonur) and others, as well as with local historians whom she helped restore the events that occurred in the Byelorussian SSR during the war. The pioneers of different schools called themselves “Bogdanovites” - in honor of Nadezhda Bogdanova. In 1965, she gave an interview to the writer Sergei Smirnov as part of the documentary series “Stories of Heroism,” in which she talked about her participation in the Great Patriotic War.