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A tragic page in the history of the war. Nadia Bogdanova. The hot heart of a young partisan

Nadezhda Alexandrovna 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 Byelorussian SSR on December 28, 1931. In 1941, after the start of the Great Patriotic War, the orphanage in which she lived was evacuated to the city of Frunze of the Kirghiz SSR. Nadya with several children from the Vitebsk and Mogilev orphanages got off the train during one of the stops to go to the front.

After getting off the train in Vitebsk, the orphanages tried to independently take part in the defense of the city. They freely moved around Vitebsk, which was 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 it. Before reaching their destination, the explosives exploded and took the lives of all the children. Only Nadia survived... Later she was admitted to the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade.

First execution.

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 on the buildings in which the Nazis lived in honor of the holiday. According to the commander of the detachment Mikhail Ivanovich Dyachkov, the red flags hung out in honor of the holiday were supposed to serve as a sign to the residents of the city that the war with the Nazi invaders continues in order to raise the fighting spirit of the Vitebsk residents.

The Nazis carefully guarded the approaches to the city, searched everyone, and even sniffed. If a suspect's hat smelled of smoke or gunpowder, he was considered a partisan and shot on the spot. There was less attention to children, so they decided to entrust this task 10-year-old Nadya Bogdanova and 12-year-old Vanya Zvontsov.At dawn on November 7, 1941, the partisans drove the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave a sledge, in which brooms were neatly packed. Among them are three brooms, in the bases of which red panels were wound, and on top of them there were rods. According to the idea of the partisans, children had to sell brooms to divert the eyes of the fascists.

Nadya and Vanya entered the city without any problems. Little children with sleds did not arouse any particular suspicion among the Nazis. Vanya, who had recently joined the partisan detachment, was noticeably nervous at every glance of the fascists in their direction. The more experienced Nadia tried to cheer up the boy. To remove the suspicions of the Germans looking in their direction, Nadia with a sled went up to a group of fascists and offered them to buy brooms. They began to laugh and poke the muzzles of their machine guns in her direction, after which one of them chased 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 fell and it got dark, they set to work. During the night, the guys planted flags at the 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 case, the children rushed to the partisan detachment to report on the completed assignment. When they, having already left the city, went out onto the high road, the Nazis caught up with them and searched them. Finding the cigarettes that the children took at the cigarette factory for the partisans, they guessed who they were bringing them to, and began to interrogate them, after which they were taken to Gorodok. The guys cried all the way. At the headquarters they were interrogated by the chief of the district gendarmerie, putting the children against the wall and shooting over 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.

Nadia and Vanya stood at the moat at the sight of the Nazis. The children were holding hands and crying. A split second before the shot, Nadia lost consciousness and fainted. After some time, Nadya woke up among the dead, including Vanya Zvontsov. Exhausted, she headed towards the forest, where the partisans found her. Since then, the detachment has not allowed her to complete tasks on her own for a long time.

Reconnaissance and battle in Balbeky.

After the capture of populated areas of the Byelorussian SSR, the Nazis set up 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 have camouflaged guns, machine guns, where the sentries are, and which side it is better to attack the village from. The command decided to send the chief of intelligence of the partisans Ferapont Slesarenko and Nadia Bogdanova to this task. Nadia, disguised as a beggar, was supposed to go around the village, and Slesarenko was supposed to cover her retreat in the woods 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 courtyards, collected alms, and remembered everything that was needed. In the evening she returned to the woods to Slesarenko. There a partisan detachment was waiting for her, to which she reported information.

At night, the partisans hit the fascists with a machine-gun burst from both sides of the village. Then Nadia took part in a night battle for the first time, although Slesarenko did not let her go a step away from him. In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded in the left hand: he fell and lost consciousness for some time. Nadia 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 join the detachment, but in the deep snowdrifts Slesarenko was exhausted and lost a lot of blood. He ordered Nadya to leave him and go to the detachment for help. Placing fir branches under the commander, Nadia went to the detachment.

The detachment was about 10 kilometers away. It turned out to be difficult to get there quickly through the snowdrifts in the cold at night. After walking about three kilometers, Nadya wandered into a small farm. Near one of the houses where the policemen dined, there was a horse with a sleigh. Having crept up to the house, Nadya got into the sleigh and returned to the wounded Slesarenko. Climbing into the sleigh, they returned to the detachment together.

Second execution.

In February 1942 (according to other sources - 1943) Nadya, together with partisans-demolitionists, was ordered to destroy the railway bridge in Karasevo. When the girl mined him and began to return to the detachment, she was stopped by the police. Nadia 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 Nadia who had mined him, and, having tied him up, put him in a sleigh and took him to the Gestapo. There they tortured her for a long time, burned a star on her back, doused her with ice water in the cold, threw her on a hot stove. Not having obtained information from her, the Nazis threw the tortured bloody girl into the cold, deciding that she would not survive. Nadia was picked up by the inhabitants of the village of Zanalyuchki, who went out and cured her. Nadya could no longer participate in the war, since after torture she practically lost her sight.

After the war.

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

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

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 g.

She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals. The name of Nadya Bogdanova is entered in the Book of Honor of the Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization named after V.I.Lenin.

She lived all her life in Vitebsk. Raised 1 native 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, Klemovskaya high school the village of Novoklemovo in the Moscow region, the 9th school of the city of Novopolotsk, the school of the city of Leninsk (now Baikonur) and others, as well as with local historians, who helped to restore the events that took place in the Byelorussian SSR during the war years. Pioneers different schools called themselves "Bogdanovtsy" - 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, fundraising was organized in several schools for the opening of a monument to Nadezhda Bogdanova. At present, nothing is known about the fate of the monument.

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

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

Just think, she was only 10 years old.

Yesterday my son and I walked in the park. The weather is excellent, the mood is wonderful, life is good. She 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 "Cool!" and "Cool!" I suddenly heard: "Oh, Portnova-barbie!". And then a number of surnames known to everyone, but with wild additions: "Kazei-spider, Kitty-ninja" ...

Has grown cold. I came up. I asked to see. They, fools like that, with pride and joy began to demonstrate a new Internet fun: pioneer heroes in stupid foreign entertaining images. I got cold on my skin. I had heard about such a game before, but then everything somehow calmed down, and I didn't get a chance to see it with my own eyes. And here - on you, before my eyes, wild pictures: the faces of our pioneer heroes froze in a new terrible vestment. I was especially shocked by the picture with Zina Portnova: a girl with a serious, courageous face, to whose head a barbie outfit is attached. It seemed that Zina was looking at me from the screen and asking: "Are you ready?" ...
-Do you know who these guys are? I asked.

-Well, yes. Pioneer heroes.

And they answered me so calmly, as if these pioneers were selling chips in a nearby kiosk.
“We just don't know this one, Nadya Bogdanova,” the boys added. - What did she do?
I am a bad psychologist, and a teacher and me too. Probably, it was necessary to answer somehow differently, stronger. After all, they say that one phrase can make a person reconsider his life. I couldn't do it. But she said:
- Nadia was in the partisan detachment. She died twice at the hands of the Nazis and miraculously survived. She was brutally tortured, burned a star on her back, poured ice water over her in the cold and beat her with ramrods. But she did not betray hers. And you turn her into a Tinker Bell fairy. Someone will come to the cemetery to your great-grandfathers and paint a mustache and a beard on their monuments. And then it will laugh over it.

And I walked away. The only thing that comforted me at that moment: I did not hear myself laughing - the boys fell silent. And my son and I walked rather slowly.
And I kept thinking about Nadia. I can not help but bring here her terrible and full of inhuman courage.
Three second births of the Azure

This girl is the youngest of the pioneer heroes. After all, when the war began, Nadya was only nine years old. And 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 of the Kirghiz SSR. But Nadia was not going to live behind the backs of adults. 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 it would be easy to carry out what was conceived: the Germans did not allow a single adult to pass without a search, but practically did not pay attention to the children - you never know them 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 did not know how to use it - children are children. And a disaster struck: the boys and girls had not yet reached the warehouse, and the explosives exploded. Everyone died except Nadia. It was her "first second birth" ...

By some miracle, the little girl found the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian brigade (according to some sources, the 6th). And she persuaded to accept her into the ranks of the fighters.

Meanwhile, the holiday of the October Revolution was approaching. The city is captured by the enemy, the inhabitants are tormented by the unknown, languishing, waiting for release. I had 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 unrealistic 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 town to sell brooms. Themselves small, pitiful, they dragged a sled. What suspicion could there be? Who would have thought that among the brooms there are three red banners that little people want to hang out in a city captured by a fierce enemy? However, Vanya, not used to partisan work, was very nervous. Nadia decided to calm him down. And, barely seeing a German patrol, she came up and asked to buy a broom from her. The fascists laughed and drove her away.

And as soon as it got dark, the children began to complete the assignment. They hung out the flags safely, but the concern for their own let down. Nadia made her way to the cigarette factory, collected a gift for the partisans, knowing that they had nothing to smoke. This was a fatal mistake.

Already on the road from the city, the guys were caught up by the Nazis and searched. Found cigarettes. They did not talk, they immediately took me to the headquarters. The children held hands all the way and cried.

At the headquarters they were tortured, placed facing the wall and shot over their heads. But without achieving anything, they threw them into the basement of the wounded Soviet prisoners for the night in order to deal with them the next day.
In the morning before the execution, the prisoners tried to shield the children with themselves.
-Beasts! Have mercy on the guys! - they shouted to the fascists and fell under their bullets ...
From the horror she experienced, Nadia fainted. And it happened a fraction of a second earlier than the shot prepared for her thundered ...

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

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

Once, pretending to be a beggar, she brought information to the detachment, thanks to which the partisans realized that the right moment had come to strike the Nazis. And the blow was struck in the night following the reconnaissance.
In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded in the arm. He fell unconscious, and when he regained consciousness, he had already lost a lot of blood. Together with Nadya, they were 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. Nadia did just that. But the detachment was about ten kilometers away, and it turned out to be very difficult to walk in deep snow. Nadya walked about three kilometers and came across a small farm. Near one of the houses where the police were having dinner, the little girl saw a horse harnessed to a sleigh. She quietly got into the sleigh, directed them into the forest, and found Slesarenko. And together they returned to the squadron! Just think: a little girl saved an adult ...

In February 1942, Nadya performed another task: it was necessary to blow up the bridge in Karasevo. The girl made her way safely to her destination and planted the explosives. But she did not have time to go far - she ran into policemen. They searched Nadia, found the remaining piece of explosives in her backpack. The partisan pretended to have found him here on the road. And then, before the eyes of the policemen, the bridge flew into the air. They understood everything, tied the girl up and brought her to the German headquarters.
What did Nadia go through here ... She was beaten with ramrods. Burned a star on my back. They planted them on hot coals. Poured water in the cold. But they got nothing. A small heart that did not know maternal care, because Nadyushka grew up in an orphanage ... Where did she find the strength to endure all this? ...

The fascists, considering it dead, threw the bloody, insensitive girl into the cold, because our troops were already approaching, the animals had to retreat. Nadia was picked up by the inhabitants 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 second birth" happened ...

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

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

She was twice executed by the Nazis, and comrades in arms for many years considered her dead and even erected a monument. When she became a scout in the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian Brigade, she was not even 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 the partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects. In subsequent operations, she was entrusted with a weapon - she walked with a pistol and a grenade in her belt. In one of the night battles, she rescued the wounded commander of the reconnaissance department Ferapont Slesarenko. The Great Patriotic War was going on. The holiday of November 7 - the Day of the October Revolution was approaching. At a meeting of the partisan detachment, they discussed who would go to the city of Vitebsk and hang red flags on the buildings in which the Nazis lived in honor of the holiday. In Vitebsk, the Nazis kept many Soviet prisoners of war, and established laws in the city under which children, old people, and women died every day. “If we hang out red flags for the holiday, then everyone will see that we are fighting the German fascist invaders, and this fight will continue to the last drop of blood,” said the commander of the partisans, Mikhail Ivanovich Dyachkov. The Nazis carefully guarded the approaches to the city, searched everyone, and even sniffed. If a suspect's hat smelled of smoke or gunpowder, he was considered a partisan and shot on the spot. There was less attention to children, so they decided to entrust this task to Bogdanova Nadya and Vanya Zvontsov - proven scouts, who were only eleven years old. At dawn on November 7, the partisans drove the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave a sled in which brooms were neatly laid, among them three brooms at the bases of which were wound red flags, and on top - rods. The legend was this: children go to sell brooms. Nadya and Vanya entered the city without any problems, on little guys with sledges, none of the Nazis paid much attention. To remove the suspicions of the Germans looking in their direction, Nadya with a sled went up to a group of fascists and offered them to buy brooms. They began to laugh and poke the muzzles of their submachine guns in her direction, and one of them said menacingly: Dafai is running away from here. Nadya felt that Vanya was afraid and encouraged him as best she could: - You do the main thing, what I tell you, and don't think about anything bad. And if you feel scared, take my hand, - said Nadia - I'm not afraid - Vanya answered, and he himself grabbed Nadia's hand over and over again. All day they walked around the city and looked closely at buildings in the city center where red flags could be placed. When evening fell and it got dark, they set to work. During the night, the guys planted flags at the railway station, a vocational school and a cigarette factory. When dawn came, our flags were already flying on these buildings. Nadya and Vanya were happy, they were in a hurry to go to the partisan detachment, to report on the completed assignment. The children had already left the city, went out onto the high road, but then the fascist policemen caught up with them) and shouted: - Stop! Who are they? - We are orphans, uncle, Vanya cried, - give me some bread, I really want to eat. - I'll give you some bread! Bastards, did you hang out the red flags in Vitebsk? - asked the policeman. - No, what are you. Look at us from where we can have flags? - answered Nadia. - Get into the sleigh, we'll figure it out in the city, - ordered the policeman. The guys cried all the way and rubbed their eyes with their fists. At the headquarters they were interrogated by a fascist. When the guys told their legend, the German began to shout that they were partisans, after which he ordered Nadya and Vanya to be shot. The guys never confessed and did not betray anyone. They were placed in a basement where many of our prisoners of war were. The next day, everyone was taken out of the city and began to be shot. Our prisoners of war shouted to the fascists not to touch Nadia and Vanya, and when the guys were placed near a huge ditch, they tried to close them with their bodies. Here Nadia and Vanya are standing at the moat and the Nazis are aiming at them. The guys hold hands and cry. Something clicked in Nadia's head, her eyes blurred, she felt that she was falling into the abyss ……. ... A girl woke up in a ditch among the dead. It turns out that a split second before the Nazis fired, she lost consciousness and fainted, this saved her life. Nadya got out of the ditch, rose and fell, crawled, rose again. There was no strength. - Guys, she's alive- Nadia heard a familiar voice above her. Uncle Stepan from their partisan detachment found her. He took her in his arms and put her in the sleigh, Nadia lost consciousness again ... ... After this incident, the partisan detachment began to take care of her, neither was sent to reconnaissance or combat missions. Remembering the deceased Vanya, Nadia always cried, as soon as eleven-year-old girls can cry. She felt sorry for Vanya, she often dreamed how he was laughing, as if they were playing snowballs…. Nadya strengthened herself, in the detachment, together with the adults, she learned to shoot at targets, throw grenades. There, in the detachment, she swore allegiance to her people and kissed the red banner. “I will avenge the Nazis for Vanya, for the fallen comrades and for all Soviet people,” she said to the commander of the partisan detachment. And she took revenge! German warehouses took off from the explosions, the houses where the Nazis lived were on fire, enemy echelons flew downhill. It was Nadya Bogdanova and her comrades who fought their war against the Nazis. The Nazis were very afraid of the partisans, and at the front, it was not as easy as the Nazis intended. The Red Army fought back the Fritz on all fronts. Therefore, the Germans tried to turn the main villages and cities into fortresses. One of such fortresses of the fascists was the village of Balbeki. The Germans set up firing points there, mined the roads, dug tanks into the ground ... It was necessary to conduct reconnaissance and find out where the Germans have camouflaged guns, machine guns, where the sentries are, and which side is better to attack the village. The command decided to send Nadia and the chief of intelligence of the partisans Ferapont Slesarenko. Nadia, disguised as a beggar, will go around the village, and Slesarenko will cover her retreat in the woods not far from the village. The sentries - the Nazis easily let the girl into the village, you never know the homeless walk around the villages in the cold, collect food in order to somehow feed themselves. Nadya walked around all the courtyards, collected alms and memorized everything that was needed. It was getting dark, she returned to the woods, where to her uncle Feropont, and there she saw the whole partisan detachment. They expected information from her. The young scout told everything in detail and showed from which side it is better to attack the village. The partisan detachment hit the fascists at night from both sides of the village: machine-gun bursts scattered here and there, the maddened Hitlerites could be heard yelling - these were partisans avenging the fascists for our tormented Motherland, for the Soviet people who died. The Nazis jumped out of the houses in their underwear, shouted something and tried to escape through the white snow away from the village, but they were still overtaken by the bullets of the partisans. For the first time, Nadya participated in a night battle, although Slesarenko did not let her go a step away from him. And suddenly he was wounded. Slesarenko fell and lost consciousness for some time, Nadya bandaged his wound, a green rocket soared into the sky - this was the commander's signal for all partisans to retreat into the forest. Slesarenko said to Nadya: - Nadya leave me! Go to the forest! - No, I will pull you out - said Nadya, she pulled herself up and could only lift Slesarenko, the girl's strength was not enough. - Leave me you hear? We will both die, you must go .... call ours ... remember this place. I order you! ”The intelligence chief said menacingly. Nadia plucked spruce branches, made a bed for Uncle Feropont out of them, laid him down and went. Nadia ran to the partisan detachment, at night, in the cold. It was about 10 kilometers to the detachment, the wind whipped her face, she fell through the snowdrifts, but went forward. Suddenly she saw a small farmhouse, a house and a light in the window. A horse with a sleigh was standing near the house. Exactly what you need, she thought. Slowly sneaking up to the house, she looked through the window and saw several policemen at the table having supper. Hearing the horse stomp, the traitor policemen jumped out onto the porch, but Nadia was already far away and they could not catch up with her. She found Slesarenko in the same place where she left him. Together they safely reached the partisan detachment. So Nadya, risking her life, saved her comrade in arms. Nadia could have done many more things for the speedy liberation of our Motherland from the Nazis, but in February 1943, she parted with her comrades in arms. She, along with the demolition guerrillas, was ordered to destroy the railway bridge. When the girl mined him and began to return to the detachment, she was stopped by the police, Nadya began to pretend to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in Nadya's backpack. When they began to ask her what it was, there was a violent explosion and the bridge flew into the air right in front of the policemen. The police realized that it was Nadia who had mined him. She was tied up, put in a sleigh and taken to the Gestapo. There they tortured her for a long time, burned a star on her back, doused her with icy water in the frost, threw her on a red-hot stove ... All covered in blood, tortured, exhausted little girl did not betray anyone. She withstood all the torture and the Nazis decided that she was dead and threw her out into the cold. Nadia was picked up by the villagers, went out, and cured. But it was no longer possible for her to fight, she practically lost her sight. At the end of the war, Nadya spent several years in the Odessa hospital, where her eyesight was restored. Nadia went to work at the plant and did not tell anyone about how she fought the Nazis. More than 15 years have passed since the war. Nadia and those with whom she worked heard on the radio how the chief of intelligence of the 6th partisan detachment Ferapont Slesarenko - her commander - said that the fighters would never forget their dead comrades, and named among them Nadia Bogdanova, who to him, wounded, saved her life ... Only then did she appear, only then did the people who worked with her learn about what an amazing fate she is, Nadya Bogdanova, who was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the 1st degree of the Patriotic War, and medals.

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

Are children rewarded for heroism today in our country? Yes, good news is heard from time to time: here a nine-year-old girl brought four children out of the fire, but a ten-year-old boy pulled out the kids who were stuck in the arable land during the flood; A 16-year-old teenager rescued 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 ailments of society, we are still able to educate a Human. And maybe these were the children who helped us to withstand the most cruel bloodshed of the 20th century?

Her name was Nadia

20-30 years ago, schoolchildren learned the names of pioneer heroes by heart. Pioneer detachments and squads were named in their honor, they composed songs and poems about them, drew wall newspapers with descriptions of their exploits. They were legendary children, role models that any ordinary child needs. They were not fictional characters and were not the product of someone's fantasy. Their lives were cut short, disfigured by the war sparing 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 where she lived was evacuated to Frunze. Nadia, on the other hand, with several children, during one of the stops, got off the train to go to the front.

Children forced to live in orphanages grow up early. There you need to survive and rely only on yourself: there are no loving parents nearby who could make their life carefree. The front to many of them at that time seemed the personification of freedom, heroism, heroism. And also - adult life without strict supervision. Of course, in reality it was not like that. But what to take from the children, if some adults, hovering in romantic fantasies about glory and beautiful battle scenes, 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 disassemble an anti-tank mine, talentedly pretend to be a beggar who wanders between the Nazis, and at this time he notices and remembers everything, in order to bring the most valuable information later his own. And here - one small fragile girl among the animals that have already tortured hundreds of thousands of children to death.

Where did she have so much courage? Maybe this is just such a fearless child in himself, who has never seen anything good in his orphanage? And because he was so brave that he was not given a mother's affection and tenderness?

No. Children do not become tender / cowardly / brave just depending on whether they were raised by their parents or strangers. Brave or not so brave children may depend on their innate vectors and how these vectors develop.

Nadya Bogdanova was a girl with visual and skin vectors. Skinny flexible, nimble, she went on such tasks where it was impossible to do without her innate dexterity. Nadya grasped everything on the fly, learning the partisan "craft", was the leader of a teenage squad.

And she was visually very scared. It is unbearably scary to find herself in a crowd of fascists, where if something happens 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, one cannot defeat the enemy in this small, but such an important part of her homeland.

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 morale local residents suffering from the actions of the enemy garrison. The partisans could not yet hit the enemy. But do nothing too.

However, there was a plan, but there was no one who could go to the city to implement the plan. The Nazis did not allow the partisans to approach the city, and there they searched everyone who could arouse suspicion. Only children, dressed in beggarly rags, holding dirty toys in their hands, and truthfully whimpering as soon as the gaze of the policemen turned to them, did not call him.

Nadia 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 dragged a sledge loaded with brooms. Among a dozen identical brooms lay three special ones, in the rods of which red panels were imperceptibly inserted. Vanya waddled around funny, trying to save energy (the road was not close - about 10 km), and Nadia laughed and walked easily and freely. But my soul was anxious.

No one bothered them in the city, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking from habit, while Nadia boldly led their "sortie". They managed to hang all the flags without attracting attention.

On the way back, the girl decided to get some cigarettes, because the partisans suffered so much without tobacco ... It was their mistake. When they left Vitebsk, the children were stopped by a policeman. He discovered tobacco and understood everything.

Children were interrogated, threatened with execution and shooting over their heads. They demanded to hand over the partisans. Both were silent, only shuddering after the next shot. The next morning after the interrogation, the young scouts were taken to be shot.

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

In the pit with the dead, Nadia found a partisan post alive.

One more chance

Who will not be broken by such an event that happened to Nadia? Where to get the strength of a simple little girl who does not even have parents who could comfort her? Where to get the strength to continue the fight?

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

There is nothing surprising in Nadia'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 do not know how Nadya lived in the orphanage, how her visual vector developed. But the general grief, the powerful rallying of the people, the idea of sacrificing oneself for the sake of a happy future of the Motherland, which is 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 taking care of oneself.

Caring for the wounded, seeing the death and suffering of thousands of people, a simple girl with a visual vector managed to put a common goal above her own fears. She pushed him out in boundless compassion and became staunch like flint, not giving out a word about the partisans during inhuman torture ...

A very expensive payment for the development of the visual vector - so it seems to us. But THEM, these children-heroes, were not afraid to die.

In February 1942, Nadia went to blow up a railway bridge. On the way back, she was stopped by policemen. After searching the girl, a tiny piece of explosives was found in her jacket. At the same 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, doused her with icy water in the cold, and threw her on hot coals. Having failed to achieve recognition, they threw the tortured child into a snowdrift, believing that the girl was dead. Nadia was found by partisans who were sent to help her. The dying woman was brought to the village. The curtains were left to the local peasant women. The powerful desire to live won, and the girl, who was dying, 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 Battle Red Banner, the First Degree of the Patriotic War and medals.

War and peace in a single organism

We can admire the courage and courage of the heroic children who helped our grandfathers and great-grandfathers to win. Marvel at their resilience, empathize with their grief and short, broken lives. And continue to live the way you lived - with your fears and looks directed inward.

Nadia Bogdanova


Nickname	Lazurchik
Date of Birth	December 28th(1931-12-28 )
Place of Birth	v. Avdanki, Vitebsk region, Byelorussian SSR
Date of death	August 21(1991-08-21 ) (59 years old)
A place of death	Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR
Affiliation	the USSR the USSR
Type of army	partisan
Years of service	1941-1942 (or 1943)
Battles / wars	The Great Patriotic War
Awards and prizes

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Kravtsova (Nadia Bogdanova , Kravtsova - married; December 28, 1931, Avdanki village, Vitebsk region, Byelorussian SSR - August 21, 1991, Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) - Soviet pioneer hero. The youngest pioneer hero in the USSR. At the age of 9, she became a scout in a partisan detachment. She was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the Patriotic War I degree, the Patriotic War II degree and the medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "Partisan of the Patriotic War I degree". Listed in the book of honor of the Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization named after Lenin.

Biography

Nadezhda Bogdanova was born on December 28, 1931 in the village of Avdanki, Gorodok district, Vitebsk region, Byelorussian SSR.

Participation in the Great Patriotic War

With the outbreak of the war, the Mogilev orphanage, where Nadya lived, was evacuated from ([Byelorussian SSR | Byelorussian USSR]) to Kirghiz, to the city of Frunze (now Bishkek). Behind Smolensk, on a train with an echelon in which the children from orphanages were traveling, Nazi planes flew in and dropped bombs three times: many children died, but the survivors fled into the forest and scattered in all directions. Nadia, together with her friend Yura Semyonov, ended up in Vitebsk occupied by the Germans three weeks later. In order not to die of hunger, until the end of 1941 they went to the villages of the Vitebsk and Gorodok districts and begged for alms.