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Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Kravtsova (Bogdanova, nickname Lazurchik) was born in the Byelorussian SSR December 28, 1931.

With the outbreak of World War II, the orphanage where Nadya lived was evacuated from Belarus to Kyrgyzstan. Nadezhda Bogdanova and a few more guys got off the train to go to the front. Children walked around the city captured by the Germans and wanted to blow up an ammunition warehouse, they soon found explosives, but it exploded, and all the children, except Nadia, died. Only Nadia survived.

In the fall of 1941 Nadya Bogdanova was admitted to the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian brigade "Putivl", where she became the youngest intelligence officer in the country.

She was twice executed by the Nazis, and for many years Nadya was considered dead by her fighting friends. They even erected a monument to her. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing everything, remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment.

The first time they grabbed her, when together with Vanya? She hung out to the zvontsov November 7, 1941 red flags in enemy-occupied Vitebsk. They raised the first banner at the railway station, the second at the building of the vocational school, and the third at an abandoned cigarette factory. After completing the assignment at dawn, the scouts went out onto the road, where the Nazis caught up with them, searched them and found cigarettes from them, which they took from the factory for the partisans. At the headquarters, they were interrogated by the chief of the district gendarmerie, putting the children against the wall and shooting over their heads.

They beat her with ramrods, tortured, and when they brought her to the ditch - to shoot, she had no strength left - she fell into the ditch, for a moment, ahead of the bullet. Vanya died, exhausted, she went 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.

In 1942 Nadia and the reconnaissance commander Ferapont Slesarenko had to conduct reconnaissance in the village of Balbeki for the presence of camouflaged firing points, guards, minefields. Nadia pretended to be a beggar and walked around the village, watching everything.

Then the detachment attacked the village and in this battle Slesarenko was wounded in the arm, he lost consciousness. Nadya and the wounded Slesarenko tried to join 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. Putting spruce 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 police were eating, 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.

In February 1942 (or 1943) Nadya participated in the mining of the bridge in Karasevo, but did not have time to move away. When the girl mined him and began to return to the detachment, she was stopped by policemen. Nadia began to pretend to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in the bag. Nadia was interrogated, 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 take part in the war, since after torture she practically lost her sight.

After the war in Odessa Academician V.P. Filatov returned Nadia's eyesight. 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 detachment Slesarenko - her commander - said that the fighters would never forget their dead comrades, and named among them Nadia Bogdanova, who saved his life when he was wounded.

Only then did she appear, only then did the people who worked with her learned about what an amazing fate she was, Nadya Bogdanova, who was awarded the Orders 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.

All her life Nadezhda has lived in Vitebsk. Raised 1 native and 7 adopted children. From the end 1970s conducted 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, who helped to restore the events that took place in Byelorussian SSR during the war.

Pioneers of different schools called themselves "Bogdanovtsy"- in honor of Nadezhda Bogdanova. V 1965 year 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.

Died August 21, 1991- on the day of the August putsch in the USSR. After her death, fundraising for the opening of the monument to Nadezhda Bogdanova was organized in several schools. At present, nothing is known about the fate of the monument. Nadia Bogdanova served as a prototype for the heroine of the Japanese-Russian cartoon "First Squad", filmed in 2009.

Hello readers and blog guests! 20-30 years ago, schoolchildren knew the names of the 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. Today I want to offer material about Nadya Bogdanova.

Nadia 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. With her comrades (and these were children under 14 years old), Nadya joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not refuse even such help. Surprisingly, she not only did not become a burden for them. At the age of 9, Nadya became a scout in the partisan detachment of "Uncle Vanya" Dyachkov. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing everything, 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. I am amazed at the courage and determination of this girl. It is unlikely that she even thought about the consequences that could come if she fell into the hands of enemies.

On the eve of the upcoming holiday of the October Revolution, at a meeting of the partisan detachment, they 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 to 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, at the base of which red flags were wound, and on top of them there were rods. According to the idea of ​​the partisans, children should sell brooms to divert the eyes of the fascists.

Let's read excerpts from the publication in the magazine "Our Filippok"

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- Get in the sleigh, we are in the cityrawe will take care - ordered the policeman.

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Here Nadia and Vanya are standing by the moat, and the Nazis are aiming at them, the guys are holding hands, something clicked in Nadia's head, her eyes blurred, she felt that she was falling into the abyss ...

She woke up in a ditch among the dead, it turns out a split second before the Nazis shot, Nadya lost consciousness and fainted, this saved her life. The girl got out of the ditch and walked towards the forest, rose and fell, crawled, rose again. There was no strength.

- Guys, she's alive - Nadya heard a familiar voice above her. Uncle Stepan from the partisan detachment found her. He took her in his arms and put her in the sleigh, Nadia fainted again ...

After this incident, they began to take care of her in the partisan detachment, they were not sent either to reconnaissance or on combat missions. Recalling the deceased Vanya, Nadia cried, as only eleven-year-old girls can cry, she felt sorry for Vanya, she often dreamed of how he laughs, how they play snowballs ...

Nadya strengthened herself, in the detachment, together with the adults, she learned to shoot at targets, throw grenades, in the same 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! Here and there German warehouses took off from the explosions, the houses where the Nazis lived were on fire, enemy trains flew downhill - this is Nadya Bogdanova and her comrades waging their war against the Nazis.

The Nazis were very afraid of the partisans, and it was not as easy at the front as the Nazis expected. The Red Army fought back the Fritz on all fronts. Therefore, the Nazis 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 ... Ours needed to conduct reconnaissance and establish where the Germans have disguised guns, machine guns, where the sentries are, which side is better to attackvillage. The command decided to send Nadia and the chief of intelligence of the partisans Ferapont Slesarenko to reconnaissance ...

Hadya first participated in the nightbattle, though Slesarenko did not let her gofrom withnot a single step. And suddenly he was wounded... Slesarenko fell and for a whilesweattook consciousness, Nadia bandaged himwoundsat. A green rocket soared into the sky - this iswascommander's signal to all guerrillaswastego to the forest. Slesarenko said to Nadya:- Nadia leave me! Go to the forest!

- No, I'll get you out - said Nadia.Shepulled herself up and could only accept Slesarenko, the girl's forces to draglumpAndir was missing.

- Leave me, can you hear? Both of uspogibnem you gotta go ... call forshih ...remember this place. I orderyoue! - already threateningly said the boss oncevedKi. Nadia picked up spruce branches, madelalaof which a bed for Uncle Feropont,ulolived it and went.

Hadya ran to the partisan detachmentnighteu, in the cold. Before the detachment there was an examplebut10 kilometers walk, the wind whipped herin landcoh, she fell through the snow, butshland forward. Suddenly she saw littleshoyfarmhouse, house and light in the window. NearHouseathere was a horse with a sleigh. Exactlythen,what is needed - she thought. Quietlyundersneaking up to the house, she looked intowindowand saw how at the dinner tablehutseveral police officers. Hearingconskiy stomp, policemen-traitors youfastchili on the porch, but Nadia was alreadyfar awayto, and they could not catch up with her. Shefoundand Slesarenko in the same place whereand aboutput. They are together safelyextfled to the partisan detachment.SoNadia, risking her life, saveditshis comrade in arms.

policemen. Nadya pretended to be a beggar, but the policemen searched her anyway and found a piece of explosives in her backpack. At that moment, a strong explosion was heard, 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 she was tortured for a long time and cruelly by the Nazis. They burned a star on her back, poured ice water over her in the frost, threw it onto a red-hot stove ... All in blood, tortured, exhausted little girl did not betray anyone, she endured all the torture. Lost consciousness. The Nazis thought she was dead and threw her out into the street. Nadia, exhausted, barely alive, was found and picked up by the villagers, they went out, cured her, but she was no longer able to fight, she practically lost her sight.

E. Filippov “Nadia Bogdanova. Warm heart of a partisan "- Our Filippok - 2014. - №6. (text scanned)

At the end of the war, Nadya spent several years in the Odessa hospital, where doctors restored her eyesight.

Nadya 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, Nadya and the people 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 saved his life as a wounded man ...

Only then did she appear, only then did the people who worked with her learn about what an amazing fate a person is, Nadya Bogdanova, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals.

Nadezhda Alexandrovna is no longer alive, she died already in peacetime, but we will always remember how a little eleven-year-old girl fought for the Motherland, so that you and I could live in this world and be happyenjoy life. For our country to live, just live ...

Eternal memory to you, Nadya Bogdanova!

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. With her comrades (and these were children under 14 years old), Nadya joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not refuse even such help. Surprisingly, she not only did not become a burden for them. At the age of 9, Nadya became a scout in the partisan detachment of "Uncle Vanya" Dyachkov. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing everything, 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.

On the eve of the upcoming holiday of the October Revolution, at a meeting of the partisan detachment, they 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 residents of Vitebsk. 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.

Reconstruction "Nadia Bogdanova distracts the fascists"

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 drove the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave a sledge, in which brooms were neatly packed. Among them are three brooms, at the base of which red flags were wound, and on top of them there were rods. According to the idea of ​​the partisans, children should sell brooms to divert the eyes of the fascists.

Nadya and Vanya entered the city without any problems. None of the fascists paid special attention to small children with sleds. 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 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 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, red flags were already flying on these buildings. Having completed the case, the children rushed to the partisan detachment to report on the completed assignment. On the way, they brought along cigarettes for the partisans. And this was a fatal mistake.

When they, having already left the city, went out onto the high road, the Nazis caught up with them and searched them. Having found the cigarettes, they guessed to whom the children were carrying them and began to interrogate them, after which they took them back to the city. The guys cried all the way. At the headquarters they were interrogated by one of the fascists. 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 town to be shot.

Nadia and Vanya stood at the moat at the gunpoint of the Nazis. The children were holding hands and crying. A split second before the shot, Nadia lost consciousness. After some time, Nadya woke up among the dead, including Vanya Zvontsov ...

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 such 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, from which side it is better to attack the village.

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 is 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 Nadya 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, Nadia bandaged his wound. A green rocket soared into the sky, which was a signal from the commander for all partisans to retreat into the forest. Slesarenko ordered Nadya to leave him and go to the detachment for help.

On a frosty night, Nadya ran through the snowdrifts to the partisan detachment, which was about 10 kilometers away. On the way, she wandered into a small farm. Near one of the houses where the police were eating, there was a horse with a sleigh. Having crept up to the house, Nadya got into the sleigh and returned to the wounded Slesarenko. Sitting on the sleigh, they returned to the detachment together.

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 returned to the detachment, she was stopped by policemen. Nadia pretended to be a beggar, then they searched her and found a piece of explosives in her bag. When they began to interrogate her, 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. The girl was captured and taken 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 left her. Nadya could no longer participate in the war; after torture, she practically lost her sight.

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Nadia was sent to Odessa for treatment. In Odessa, academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov returned her sight. 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.

And she didn't even know that a monument was erected to her. Posthumously, as her comrades thought.

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. It was only then that the people who worked with her learned about what an amazing fate she was, Nadya Bogdanova, who was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, and medals.

She became the youngest pioneer-hero, her name is entered in the Book of Honor of the Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin.

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova lived all her life in Vitebsk, in the marriage of Kravtsova. She raised 4 children alone, her husband died early.

The war for Nadezhda began when she was only 13. The heroic girl had dozens of daring sabotages on her account. The Nazis executed her twice, but they could not take her life and faith in victory. "Defending Russia" recalls the front-line path of the young partisan Nadya Bogdanova.

In a partisan detachment

Nadya Bogdanova fell into the hands of the partisans at the beginning of the war. The Belarusian orphanage where she lived was evacuated to the city of Frunze, and at one of the stations the orphan got off the train with a firm decision to go to the front. So a fragile little girl, who was only 13, was admitted to the partisan detachment of the 2nd Belarusian brigade.

Nadia not only did not become a burden for the avengers, but also managed to gain the respect and trust of adult soldiers. Pretending to be a beggar, she wandered through the villages occupied by the enemy, memorizing and noticing every little thing, and then returned to her own with the most valuable intelligence.

Flags in Vitebsk

On the holiday of the October Revolution, the partisan detachment planned a sabotage: to hang Soviet flags in German-occupied Vitebsk. This was supposed to raise the morale of local residents and serve as a call to fight the enemy. The task was entrusted to Nadya Bogdanova and twelve-year-old Vanya Zvontsov - the children would not attract the attention of the Nazis.

In the early morning of November 6, 1941, Nadya and Vanya, dressed in rags, entered Vitebsk without arousing the suspicions of the Nazis. The children were carrying a sled, into which the partisans had laid brooms - their young scouts had to sell for a distraction. In the base of three brooms, treasured red panels were hidden under the rods.

All day the children wandered around the city, and with the onset of darkness they set to work. By dawn on November 7, three flags were flying on the railway station, a vocational school, and an abandoned cigarette factory.

Nadia and Vanya were already leaving the city when the Nazis caught up and searched them. They found cigarettes - their young saboteurs took them for the partisans - and guessed everything.

After the interrogation, the children were ordered to be shot.

Together with the captured Red Army men they were taken out of the city and built at the moat. The children were crying and holding hands when the Germans opened fire.

So Vanya Zvontsov and about a dozen captured soldiers died. And Nadya, who lost consciousness from fright a moment before the shot, miraculously survived.

Returning to the partisans, the girl asked to teach her how to shoot and throw grenades.

The last sabotage

In February 1943, Nadya Bogdanova was instructed to blow up the bridge over Lake Karasevo. The girl mined the crossing and was already returning to the detachment when she was stopped by policemen.

The little partisan was searched, and crumbs of explosives were found in her knapsack. At that moment, the bridge exploded - it didn't take long to look for the culprits.

The outraged Nazis brought Nadia to the headquarters. They mocked the girl during interrogation - they poured icy water over her in the cold, threw her on hot coals, burned a star on her back. Despite the inhuman torture, which not every adult can withstand, Nadia did not betray her.

The torturers threw her mutilated body into a ditch.

The local residents were ordered to bury the partisan, who discovered that she was alive! It's amazing, but the heroic girl who survived the real hell was still breathing.

For a long time, Nadya was nursed by local residents. She never returned to the partisans.

Return

Victory Day came, but Nadia did not see a world without war at once. She lost her sight after Nazi torture. She spent several years in hospitals before she began to see again.

Nadezhda settled in Vitebsk, got a job at the plant. She started a family, gave birth to children.

Nadya was silent about her heroic past. Her exploits would have remained unknown, if not for the case.

15 years after the war, Nadezhda Kravtsova - her husband's surname - heard on the radio the voice of Ferapont Slesarenko, the intelligence chief of the 6th partisan detachment. The front-line soldier talked about the war and about those who did not wait for victory. He also mentioned Nadia, who at one time saved his life. It was then that the heroine decided to make herself felt.

Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.

She raised four children and lived her whole life in the city she defended.

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 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 swooped down and dropped bombs three times: many children died, but the survivors fled into the forest and scattered in all directions. Nadya, along 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.