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Zinaida Portnova was a Soviet actress and singer. She was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She was the daughter of a military officer. She studied at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. Portnova began her career in the 1940s, appearing in several films and plays. She was best known for her roles in the films The Cranes Are Flying (1957) and The Ascent (1977). She also appeared in the television series The White Sun of the Desert (1970). Portnova was married to actor and director Nikolai Gubenko from 1962 until his death in 2002. She died on 28 April, 2020 in Moscow, Russia at the age of 94. At the time of her death, Portnova had an estimated net worth of $1 million. She earned most of her wealth from her acting and singing career. She also earned money from her appearances in television shows and films.

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Age 18 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February 1926
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death (1944-01-15) Polotsk, Belorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Died Place Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Nationality Russia

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1958

On 1 July 1958, Portnova was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. She also received the Order of Lenin. In 1969, the village of Zuya dedicated a commemorative plaque in her honour. She also had numerous Young Pioneer groups named in her honour.

1944

After being recaptured, Portnova was tortured, possibly for information. She was later driven into the forest and executed or killed during torture on 15 January 1944.

1943

In 1943, Portnova became employed as a kitchen aide in Obol. In August, she poisoned the food meant for the Nazi garrison stationed there. Immediately falling suspect, she said she was innocent and ate some of the food in front of the Nazis to prove it was not poisoned; after she did not fall ill immediately, they released her. Portnova became sick afterwards, vomiting heavily but eventually recovering from the poison after drinking much whey. After she did not return to work, the Germans realized she had been the culprit and started searching for her. To avoid the Germans, she became a scout of the partisan unit named after Kliment Voroshilov. In a letter sent to her parents that month, she wrote that she is "in partisan unit, beating the Nazis". In October 1943, Portnova joined the VLKSM.

In December 1943 or January 1944, Portnova was sent back to Obol to infiltrate the garrison, discover the reason for the recent Young Avengers failures, then locate and contact the remaining members. She was quickly captured. Reports of her escape vary. One is that, during Gestapo interrogation in the village of Goriany, she took the investigator's pistol off the table, then shot and killed him. When two German soldiers entered after hearing the gunshots, she shot them as well. She then attempted to escape the compound and ran into the woods, where she was caught near the banks of a river.

1942

In 1942, Portnova joined the Belarusian resistance movement, becoming a member of the local underground Komsomol organization in Obol, Vitebsk Voblast, named Young Avengers. She began by distributing Soviet propaganda leaflets in the German-occupied Belarus, collecting and hiding weapons for Soviet soldiers, and reporting on German troop movements. After learning how to use weapons and explosives from the older members of the group, Portnova participated in sabotage actions at a pump, local power plant, and brick factory. These acts are estimated to have killed upwards of 100 German soldiers.

1926

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.

Portnova was born in Leningrad on 20 February 1926. She was the daughter of a working-class Belarusian family. Her father worked at the Kirov Plant. She was a seventh-grade student at the 385th school in Leningrad in 1941, when she left for her grandmother's house in the Vitebsk region. Not long afterwards, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. An incident with the invading Nazi troops, who hit her grandmother while they were confiscating the cattle, led her to hate the Germans.