Now we cannot say for sure whether the words given by correspondents in Pravda are realistic. Did Zoya really agitate the Soviet people to fight and predicted the future defeat of the fascist invaders? We do not know this, one thing is for sure: even if there were no fearless words, the feat of a young girl can certainly be called heroic, patriotic and courageous.
Monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in Moscow
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is an 18-year-old Moscow schoolgirl, Komsomol member. She was born in the Tambov region, but then the family moved to Moscow. Now her body rests at the Novodevichy cemetery.
The biggest part of Zoya's life is connected with Moscow, and in the Moscow region she was overtaken by a tragic death. Maybe that's why this city has the largest number of memorable places. Here, on Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky Street,school number 201 is located, where the girl studied. Here, passing into the garden near the school, we can see what the hand of a brave Moscow schoolgirl touched. One of the monuments to the girl is also located here.
In Moscow, at the Novodevichy Cemetery, going up to the grave of a girl, we can feel her fighting spirit, captured in the tombstone.
"I'm not afraid to die, comrades! It is happiness to die for your people!”
The words used for the title belong to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. It can be said that they were the last for her, because literally in a couple of moments the German executioner knocked the wooden box out from under the feet of the exhausted girl, and she silently hung in the noose.
Who is she, the hero girl? First of all, she is a daughter and sister, and then a Komsomol member, a Red Army soldier of a partisan unit, an unusually courageous girl. Zoya is the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union at the cost of her own life during the Great Patriotic War.
Zoya is a symbol of heroism that inspired the Soviet youth to fight the fascist invaders.
Fortunately, the girl's feat was not forgotten after the victory. Commemorative monuments were erected in many cities. Schools, libraries, streets were named after her.
The most realistic in terms of location is the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, located in the village of Petrishchevo.
The feat is not forgotten: descendants remember it
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in Petrishchevo was not built by chance. Right herethe Komsomol member, Red Army soldier, partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya heroically parted with her life. It happened on November 29, 1941 in the center of the village, at the crossroads. The mutilated body of the girl hung on the gallows for three days (and according to other sources for a whole month).
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya can be seen not only at the site of her feat. Moscow, Kyiv, Tambov, St. Petersburg, Kharkov, Oster, the village of Panteleymovka, Saki, Komsomolsk, Yerevan, Donetsk, Sumy - all these settlements immortalized the feat of the heroine, Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya Anatolyevna, in stone (monuments, busts, obelisks, commemorative plaques, plaques).
Perhaps the most famous is the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya on the Minsk highway. Here, on the 86th kilometer, the first stop is made by tourists who come to see the place of death of the Soviet heroine Zoya.
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya on the Minsk highway is interesting not only for its proximity to the village of Petrishchevo, but also for the fact that you definitely won’t miss it when heading to the museum named after this girl.
Over the Minsk Flying Highway…
The poet Nikolai Dmitriev mentioned the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, located on the Minsk highway, in his poem:
She called herself Tanya.
Not knowing that in proud beauty
Unbroken, bronze will rise
Over the Minsk flying highway.
At the 86th kilometer of the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region, on a high pedestal, a thin figure of a girl stands out among the sprawling trees.
By the structure of the body, it is noticeable that the girl is quite young, but if you look closely at her face, it becomes clear that she is serious beyond her years. Frowning eyebrows, a proudly thrown head and hands tied behind her back - this is how the sculptors V. A. Fedorov, O. A. Ikonnikov and architect A. Kaminsky saw the Soviet heroine.
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was erected in 1957, a year after the opening of the Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Museum in the village of Petrishchevo. The museum is located in the house where the girl, who called herself Tanya, took the last step into infinity through death.
The exposition is divided into seven halls. However, a tour of the museum begins with an acquaintance with the sculpture of M. G. Manizer - "Zoya". Before us appears a girl with short cropped hair. She courageously and stubbornly looks forward, and her lips are tightly compressed … Next to the sculpture is a tablet on which Zoya's last words are inscribed: "It is happiness - to die for your people."
