Nadia Bogdanova unknown facts. Nadya Bogdanova, the girl who was executed twice

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Her name was Nadia... The work was prepared by students of class 7 "B" Head Anastasia Eduardovna Davydova

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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, 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 fruit of someone's imagination. Their lives were cut short, mutilated by a war that spared no one.

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ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, WE, GUYS OF THE 7th CLASS, DECIDED TO FIND OUT DO THE STUDENTS OF OUR SCHOOL KNOW WHO THE PIONEER HEROES ARE?

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When asked who the pioneer heroes were, the following answers were received: These are the children of war who have accomplished some feat! These are Zina Portnova, Marat Kazei, Volodya Dubinin, Lenya Golikov, Valya Kotik!

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We were very pleased that the students of our school know and remember the exploits of their peers during the war years, they keep in memory how they, boys and girls of our age, were ready to give everything for their Motherland!

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They went to school the same way as we did, And wrote with the same chalk, And loved to play in the gym, And were always busy with work. They were cheerful, inquisitive, But with adults on an equal footing They got into the ranks and quite consciously Fought in that war. They died in battles as heroes, Partisans through the forests, And they were not broken by the enemy, The enemy was seriously afraid of them himself!

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In order to form patriotic feelings and develop civic responsibility, we want to talk about one more hero! Or rather, the heroine - HOPE BOGDANOVA. Her fate is very interesting and we would like everyone to know about her!

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Nadia 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 in Frunze. Nadia, with several children, got off the train during one of the stops to go to the front.

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With her comrades, Nadia joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not even refuse 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.

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It was autumn 1941. 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 were dragging sledges laden with brooms. Among a dozen identical brooms lay three special ones, in the rods of which red panels were imperceptibly inserted. Vanya hobbled along funny, trying to save energy (the road was not close - about 10 km), and Nadia laughed and walked easily and freely. But my heart was worried. In the city, no one interfered with them, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking out of habit, while Nadia boldly led their "sally". 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 was their mistake. Already at the exit from Vitebsk, the children were stopped by a policeman. He discovered tobacco and understood everything. Children were interrogated, threatened with execution and shot over their heads. They demanded to extradite 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 the children, beasts! - the prisoners shouted to the executioners, but they could not do anything, falling from the bullets into the common pit. Vanya fell after another shot. Nadia lost consciousness a second before the bullet was supposed to pierce her chest. In the pit with the dead, Nadya was found alive by a partisan post.

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

Are children awarded for heroism today in our country? Yes, joyful news is heard from time to time: a nine-year-old girl brought four children out of a fire, but a ten-year-old boy pulled out kids stuck in arable land during the flood; A 16-year-old teenager saved a little girl who fell off a bridge into an icy spring river.

These news warm 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, perhaps, these were the children who helped us survive in the most brutal bloodshed of the 20th century?

Her name was Nadia

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, 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 fruit of someone's imagination. Their lives were cut short, mutilated by a war that spared no one.

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Nadia 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 in Frunze. Nadia, with several children, got off the train during one of the stops 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 for many of them at that time seemed the personification of freedom, heroism, feat. And also - adult life without strict supervision. Of course, it wasn't really like that. But what to take from children, if some adults went to the front with similar thoughts, hovering in romantic fantasies of glory and beautiful battle scenes?

With her comrades, Nadia joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not even refuse 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 at 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 that time he notices and remembers everything, so that later he can bring valuable information his. And here - one little fragile girl among the animals that have already tortured hundreds of thousands of children to death.

Why did she have so much courage? Maybe it's just in itself such a fearless child who in his orphanage life has never seen anything good? And why is he so brave that he was not given maternal affection and tenderness?

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

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

And she was also visually very scared. It is unbearably scary to be in a crowd of fascists, where in which case no one would have helped her - neither the commander of the partisan detachment, nor the legendary Marshal Zhukov, nor the leader of the proletariat. Nadia was trembling like an autumn leaf, but she went there because she understood that the partisans could not do 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 celebration of the October Revolution was approaching. The command of the partisan detachment decided to hang red flags in Vitebsk in order to raise the morale of local residents suffering from the actions of the enemy garrison. The partisans could not hit the enemy yet. But also do nothing.

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 let the partisans near the city, and there they searched everyone who could arouse suspicion. The only ones who did not call him were children dressed in beggarly rags, holding dirty toys in their hands and whimpering truthfully as soon as the eyes of the police turned to them.

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 were dragging sledges laden with brooms. Among a dozen identical brooms lay three special ones, in the rods of which red panels were imperceptibly inserted. Vanya hobbled along funny, trying to save energy (the road was not close - about 10 km), and Nadia laughed and walked easily and freely. But my heart was worried.

In the city, no one interfered with them, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking out of habit, while Nadia boldly led their "sally". 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 was their mistake. Already at the exit from Vitebsk, the children were stopped by a policeman. He discovered tobacco and understood everything.

Children were interrogated, threatened with execution and shot over their heads. They demanded to extradite 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 the children, beasts! - the prisoners shouted to the executioners, but they could not do anything, falling from the bullets into the common pit. Vanya fell after another shot. Nadia lost consciousness a second before the bullet was supposed to pierce her chest.

In the pit with the dead, Nadya was found alive by a partisan post.

One more chance

Who will not be broken by such an event that happened to Nadia? Where can a simple little girl get strength, who does not even have parents who could console 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 in order to heal a wounded soul. However, Nadia did not do this: moreover, the brave girl demanded to be taught how to shoot at targets and throw grenades at the enemy. And when the time came, she rushed into reconnaissance, participated in the battles and saved the life of the intelligence chief 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 Nadia lived in the orphanage, how her visual vector developed. But the general grief, the powerful unity of the people, the idea of ​​sacrificing oneself for the sake of the 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 steadfast as a flint, not saying a word about the partisans during inhuman torture ...

A very expensive fee 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 the police. After searching the girl, they found a tiny piece of explosives in the 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 ice water in the cold, threw her on hot coals. Never having achieved a confession, they threw the tormented child into a snowdrift, believing that the girl was dead. Nadia was found by partisans who were sent to help her. Dying, brought to the village. Zanaluchki and left the local peasant women. A powerful desire to live won, and the girl, who was near death, survived again. True, she could no longer fight further - Nadya practically lost her sight (after the war, Academician V.P. Filatov restored her sight).

For military exploits, Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War, 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 heroic children who helped our grandfathers and great-grandfathers win. To marvel at their resilience, to sympathize with their grief and short broken lives. And continue to live as it was lived - with your fears and views directed inward.

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

Are children awarded for heroism today in our country? Yes, joyful news is heard from time to time: a nine-year-old girl brought four children out of a fire, but a ten-year-old boy pulled out kids stuck in arable land during the flood; A 16-year-old teenager saved a little girl who fell off a bridge into an icy spring river.

These news warm 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, perhaps, these were the children who helped us survive in the most brutal bloodshed of the 20th century?

Her name was Nadia

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, 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 fruit of someone's imagination. Their lives were cut short, mutilated by a war that spared no one.

You may be interested

Nadia 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 in Frunze. Nadia, with several children, got off the train during one of the stops 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 for many of them at that time seemed the personification of freedom, heroism, feat. And also - adult life without strict supervision. Of course, it wasn't really like that. But what to take from children, if some adults went to the front with similar thoughts, hovering in romantic fantasies of glory and beautiful battle scenes?

With her comrades, Nadia joined the Belarusian partisans, who could not even refuse 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 at 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 that time he notices and remembers everything, so that later he can bring valuable information his. And here - one little fragile girl among the animals that have already tortured hundreds of thousands of children to death.

Why did she have so much courage? Maybe it's just in itself such a fearless child who in his orphanage life has never seen anything good? And why is he so brave that he was not given maternal affection and tenderness?

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

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

And she was also visually very scared. It is unbearably scary to be in a crowd of fascists, where in which case no one would have helped her - neither the commander of the partisan detachment, nor the legendary Marshal Zhukov, nor the leader of the proletariat. Nadia was trembling like an autumn leaf, but she went there because she understood that the partisans could not do 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 celebration of the October Revolution was approaching. The command of the partisan detachment decided to hang red flags in Vitebsk in order to raise the morale of local residents suffering from the actions of the enemy garrison. The partisans could not hit the enemy yet. But also do nothing.

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 let the partisans near the city, and there they searched everyone who could arouse suspicion. The only ones who did not call him were children dressed in beggarly rags, holding dirty toys in their hands and whimpering truthfully as soon as the eyes of the police turned to them.

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 were dragging sledges laden with brooms. Among a dozen identical brooms lay three special ones, in the rods of which red panels were imperceptibly inserted. Vanya hobbled along funny, trying to save energy (the road was not close - about 10 km), and Nadia laughed and walked easily and freely. But my heart was worried.

In the city, no one interfered with them, no one stopped them. Vanya was shaking out of habit, while Nadia boldly led their "sally". 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 was their mistake. Already at the exit from Vitebsk, the children were stopped by a policeman. He discovered tobacco and understood everything.

Children were interrogated, threatened with execution and shot over their heads. They demanded to extradite 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 the children, beasts! - the prisoners shouted to the executioners, but they could not do anything, falling from the bullets into the common pit. Vanya fell after another shot. Nadia lost consciousness a second before the bullet was supposed to pierce her chest.

In the pit with the dead, Nadya was found alive by a partisan post.

One more chance

Who will not be broken by such an event that happened to Nadia? Where can a simple little girl get strength, who does not even have parents who could console 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 in order to heal a wounded soul. However, Nadia did not do this: moreover, the brave girl demanded to be taught how to shoot at targets and throw grenades at the enemy. And when the time came, she rushed into reconnaissance, participated in the battles and saved the life of the intelligence chief 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 Nadia lived in the orphanage, how her visual vector developed. But the general grief, the powerful unity of the people, the idea of ​​sacrificing oneself for the sake of the 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 steadfast as a flint, not saying a word about the partisans during inhuman torture ...

A very expensive fee 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 the police. After searching the girl, they found a tiny piece of explosives in the 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 ice water in the cold, threw her on hot coals. Never having achieved a confession, they threw the tormented child into a snowdrift, believing that the girl was dead. Nadia was found by partisans who were sent to help her. Dying, brought to the village. Zanaluchki and left the local peasant women. A powerful desire to live won, and the girl, who was near death, survived again. True, she could no longer fight further - Nadya practically lost her sight (after the war, Academician V.P. Filatov restored her sight).

For military exploits, Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War, 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 heroic children who helped our grandfathers and great-grandfathers win. To marvel at their resilience, to sympathize with their grief and short broken lives. And continue to live as it was lived - with your fears and views directed inward.

Bogdanova, Nadezhda Alexandrovna

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bogdanova (married - Kravtsova) (December 28, 1931 - August 21, 1991) - pioneer hero. The youngest participant of 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 World War II, the orphanage in which she lived was evacuated to the city of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR. Nadia with several children from Vitebsk and Mogilev orphanages got off the train during one of the stops to go to the front.

She was executed twice by the Nazis, and her comrades-in-arms 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 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 went with a pistol and a grenade in her belt. In one of the night battles, she saved the wounded commander of the reconnaissance unit Ferapont Slesarenko.


Attempted sabotage in Vitebsk


After getting off the train in Vitebsk, the orphans tried to take part in the defense of the city on their own. They freely moved 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 guys did not have time to reach their destination: there was an explosion, as a result of which the children died. Only Nadia 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 out red flags in honor of the holiday on the buildings in which the Nazis lived. According to the detachment commander Mikhail Ivanovich Dyachkov, the red flags hung in honor of the holiday were supposed to serve as a sign to the residents of the city that the war against the Nazi invaders continues in order to raise the morale of 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, they considered him a partisan and shot him on the spot. There was less attention to children, so we decided to entrust this task to 10-year-old Nadia Bogdanova and 12-year-old Vanya Zvontsov. At dawn on November 7, 1941, the partisans brought the children closer to Vitebsk. They gave me a sled in which brooms were neatly stowed. Among them are three brooms, at the base of which red cloths were wound, and rods on top. According to the idea of ​​​​the partisans, children had to sell brooms to avert the eyes of the Nazis.


Nadia and Vanya entered the city without any problems. Little children with sleds aroused no special suspicion in any of the Nazis. Vanya, who was recently in the partisan detachment, was noticeably nervous at every glance of the Nazis in their direction. More experienced Nadia tried to cheer up the boy. To relieve herself of the suspicions of the Germans looking in their direction, Nadia approached a group of Nazis with a sled and offered them to buy brooms. They began to laugh and poke the muzzles of machine guns in her direction, after which one of them in broken Russian drove her away.


All day they walked around the city and looked at the buildings in the city center where they could hang red flags. When evening came and it became dark, they set to work. During the night, the guys set up 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 work, the children hurried to the partisan detachment to report on the completed task. When they, having already left the city, went out onto the main road, the Nazis caught up with them and searched them. Having found the cigarettes that the children had taken at the cigarette factory for the partisans, they guessed who they were carrying them to, and began interrogating them, after which they took them to Gorodok. The kids cried all the way. At the headquarters they were interrogated by the head of the district gendarmerie, putting the children against the wall and firing over their heads. After interrogation, he ordered the children to be shot. They were placed in the 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 at the moat under the guns of the Nazis. The children held hands and cried. A fraction of a second before the shot, Nadia lost consciousness. Some time later, Nadia 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 independently perform tasks.


Reconnaissance and combat in Balbeki


In the captured settlements of Belarus, the Nazis set up firing points, mined roads, 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 cannons, machine guns disguised, where sentries were stationed, from which side it was better to attack the village. The command decided to send the partisan intelligence chief Ferapont Slesarenko and Nadya Bogdanova to this task. Nadia, dressed as a beggar, was supposed to bypass the village, and Slesarenko - to cover her departure in a forest near 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, collect food in order to somehow feed themselves. Nadia went around all the yards, collected alms and remembered everything that was needed. By 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 fired machine-gun fire at the Nazis from both sides of the village. Then Nadia first participated in a night battle, although Slesarenko did not let her go a single step. In this battle, Slesarenko was wounded in his left hand: he fell and lost consciousness for a while. Nadia bandaged his wound. A green rocket soared into the sky, which was a signal from the commander to all partisans to retreat to the forest. Nadya and the wounded Slesarenko tried to leave for the detachment, but in deep snowdrifts Slesarenko lost a lot of blood and became exhausted. He ordered Nadia to leave him and go to the detachment for help. Putting spruce branches under the commander, Nadya went to the detachment.


The detachment was about 10 kilometers away. At night, it was difficult to get there quickly through snowdrifts in frost. After walking about three kilometers, Nadia wandered into a small farm. Near one of the houses where the police were having dinner, there was a horse with a sleigh. Creeping up to the house, Nadia got into the sleigh and returned to the wounded Slesarenko. Climbing into the sleigh, they returned together to the detachment.


Mining of the bridge in Karasevo


In February 1942 (according to other sources - 1943), Nadia, along with demolition partisans, was ordered to destroy the railway bridge in Karasevo. When the girl mined it 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 Nadia, 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, having tied him up, they put him in a sled 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 red-hot stove. Failing to get information from her, the Nazis threw the tormented, bloodied girl out into the cold, deciding that she would not survive. Nadia was picked up by the inhabitants of the village of Zanaluchki, who went out and cured her. Nadia could no longer participate in the war, because after the torture she practically lost her sight.


After the war


3 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Nadya was sent to Odessa for treatment. In Odessa, Academician Vladimir Petrovich Filatov partially restored her sight. Returning to Vitebsk, Nadya got a job at a factory. For a long time, Nadia 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 of their dead comrades would never forget, and named Nadya Bogdanova among them, who saved his life, wounded. Only then did she show up.


She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, and medals. The name of Nadia 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. Raised 1 native and 7 adopted children. From the late 1970s, she actively corresponded 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 took place in the Byelorussian SSR during the war years. 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 Tales 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 coup in the USSR. After her death, several schools organized fundraising for the opening of a monument to Nadezhda Bogdanova. At present, nothing is known about the fate of the monument.

The war for Nadezhda began when she was only 13. On account of the heroic girl, dozens of bold acts of sabotage. The Nazis executed her twice, but they could not take her life and faith in victory. "Defend Russia" recalls the front-line path of the young partisan Nadia Bogdanova.

In a partisan detachment

Nadya Bogdanova came to the partisans at the beginning of the war. The Belarusian orphanage in which 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 the fragile little girl, who was only 13, was accepted into 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 occasion of the October Revolution, a partisan detachment planned a diversion: hang Soviet flags in German-occupied Vitebsk. This was supposed to raise the morale of the locals and serve as a call to fight the enemy. They entrusted the task to Nadia 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, dressed in rags, Nadia and Vanya, without arousing the suspicions of the Nazis, entered Vitebsk. The children were carrying sleds in which the partisans had put brooms - their young scouts were supposed to sell them as a distraction. At the base of three brooms, under the bars, the cherished red banners were hidden.

All day the children wandered around the city, and after dark they set to work. By dawn on November 7, three flags were flying from the building of the railway station, the vocational school and the abandoned cigarette factory.

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

After interrogation, the children were ordered to be shot.

Together with the captured Red Army soldiers, they were taken outside the city and lined up at the moat. The children were crying and holding hands as the Germans opened fire.

This is how Vanya Zvontsov and about a dozen captured soldiers died. And Nadia, who lost consciousness from fright a moment before the shot, miraculously survived.

Returning to the partisans, the girl asked to be taught how to shoot and throw grenades.

Last diversion

In February 1943, Nadia Bogdanova was assigned to blow up the bridge over Lake Karasevo. The girl mined the crossing and was already returning to the detachment when the policemen stopped her.

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

The brutalized Nazis brought Nadya to headquarters. They mocked the girl during interrogation - poured ice 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 endure, Nadya did not betray her own.

The tormentors threw her mutilated body into a ditch.

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

For a long time, Nadia was cared for by local residents. She never returned to the partisans.

Return

Victory Day has come, but Nadia did not immediately see a world without war. After Nazi torture, she lost her sight. She spent many years in hospitals before she could see again.

Nadezhda settled in Vitebsk, got a job at a factory. Started a family, gave birth to children.

Nadia was silent about her heroic past. Her exploits would have remained unknown if not for the occasion.

Fifteen 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 Nadya, who at one time saved his life. Then the heroine decided to make herself known.

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Bogdanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree.

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