Outstanding women of the Great Patriotic War. http: //www. womie. ru/licnost-iobscestvo/velikie-zhenshiny/velikiezhenshhiny-velikojj-otechestvennojjvojjny/
• First of all it will be a question of women heroes of the Soviet Union. First of all, it will be a question of women - Heroes of the Soviet Union. Streets and avenues of the former USSR are called by their names. They led the quiet female life, but were compelled to face war.
• At the front was normal to see women not only doctors, but also pilots, snipers, tankmen, gunners, scouts, operators and even infantrymen. Active participation of the woman was accepted in the guerrilla movement. The women who remained in the back assumed civilian professions of men because there was nobody to feed, dress and supply with ammunition the front.
• In total in the USSR ranks of the Hero of the Soviet Union are awarded 95 great women of the Great Patriotic War. Here the most known of them.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. • The girl of nineteen years went for war by the volunteer. Its first task was to burn the village occupied by Germans. Zoya managed to set fire to three houses, but was compelled to return to the wood later. Every other day she without the permission went to the village what to finish a task. But she was caught by Germans. Fascists ruthlessly scoffed at she, but she didn't give out front secrets. Hung up Zoya on a central square in the village.