When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quitthe tenth grade of Moscow’s 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men’s clothes, tall, ...

A museum on the site of the wartime execution of a Soviet partisan girl has proved to be too unconventional and “trendy” and has even ended up embroiled in controversy. The media and bloggers have ...

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis and Executed Today write about the myths surrounding life and death of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how ...

More than 160 streets and squares in the Russian capital bear the names of war heroes. Each name is a story of the courage of the Soviet people who fought against Nazism. We explain a selected few ...

Photo credit: a shot from Zoya / ISTORIYA.RF / youtube.com Zoya feature dedicated to the life and deed of the World War 2 hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, was named the winner of the international military ...

Zoya Phan's father had named his daughter after Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the Russian woman who died a martyr in the Soviet resistance against the Nazis. He had seen similarities between Kosmodemyanskaya ...