Biography of Shevtsova Love

It was born on September 8 in Izvarino Donetsk province - it died on February 9 in the Rovenks of the Voroshilovgrad region now Lugansk region. Soviet underground, member of the headquarters of the underground anti -fascist organization "Young Guard". Hero of the Soviet Union, posthumously. Lyubov Shevtsova was born on September 8 in Izvarino of the Krasnodonsk district of the Donetsk province.

Father - Grigory Ilyich Shevtsov. Mother - Efrosinya Mironovna Shevtsova. Was the only daughter in the family. In the year, the Shevtsovs moved to Krasnodon. Lyuba studied at the school in the same class with Sergey Tyulenin. It was distinguished by a cheerful character, won at sports competitions, participated in amateur performances and visited the Circle of Youngs, dreamed of becoming an actress.

She sang and danced perfectly. In the first months of the war, Lyuba Shevtsova graduated from nurses, worked in a hospital in Krasnodon. In April, on the recommendation of the Krasnodar district committee of the Komsomol, she became a cadet of the Voroshilovgrad school of training partisans and underground, received a specialty of a radio operator here. After graduation in the summer of the year, Lyuba Shevtsova was left for communication in one of the underground groups operating in the occupied Voroshilovrad.

Her responsibilities included transferring intelligence collected by underground to the center. In mid -August, as a result of the failure of the venerable apartment of one of the members of the underground group, the danger of the arrest of Shevtsova arose. After unsuccessful attempts to make contact with the leader of the group, Lyuba was forced to leave for Krasnodon. It establishes a connection with the youth underground, becomes an active participant in the organization “Young Guard”, and then a member of its headquarters.

Lyuba Shevtsova, she distributed leaflets, conducted reconnaissance, extracted medicines. Together with Sergey Tyulenin and Viktor Lukyanchenko, in December, she participated in the arson of the labor exchange, after which she returned to the club, where she sang for German officers to distract their attention from the fire on the exchange. The bold operation of the Young Guards saved about two thousand boys and girls of the Krasnodonsky district from the theft to Germany.

On the instructions of the headquarters, Lyuba repeatedly went to Voroshilovgrad, Kamensk and other settlements, communicating with the partisans.

Suddenly, the police arrested one of the members of the underground group as anti -fascist, but, since the police did not have data on his relations with Soviet intelligence, he soon, with the permission of the SD, was released. However, the imprudence of this member of the group complicated the work of Shevtsova. In September, the Germans came to the apartment where Shevtsov stopped, and they were interested in where she lives.

Lyuba at that time was with her relatives in Krasnodon. Arriving in Voroshilovgrad and learning about visiting the Germans, she left the city. It was unsafe to appear in Voroshilovgrad, but she came to the city several more times, trying to establish a connection with the leader of the group. Risking her life, Lyuba tried to pick up the walkie -talkie and take it to Krasnodon.

She failed to establish a connection with the leaders of the group. Shevtsova’s note to the leader of the group, written by a pencil on a piece of musical paper, has been preserved: “I was with you, what, you have a bad position? But still it should be the same as it is, intact and safe. If you live badly for you, then try to get to me, we have much better, and do nothing without my permission.

Perhaps I will take or take everything a little by my attached. If you come to me, then my address. Krasnodon, st. Chkalova, N27 ". Lyuba Shevtsova did not know that at that time her walkie -talkie was destroyed by the leader of the group. The death of Lyuba Shevtsova on January 8, Lyubov Shevtsova, was arrested by the Krasnodar police. The Nazis had long been looking for her as a Soviet radio operator, therefore, trying to learn ciphers and appearances from her, they tormented the underground especially for long and cruelly.

But they did not achieve anything. Before death, she conveyed the words: “Tell everyone that I love life. Ahead of Soviet youth is not one spring and not one golden autumn. There will still be a clear, peaceful blue sky and a bright moonlit night, it will still be very good on our dear and close, all of us beloved Soviet homeland. ” Shevtsov’s love was buried in the mass grave of the victims of Nazism in the center of the city of Rovenka in the Square named after the “Young Guard”.

She was awarded the Order of Lenin. Is the heroine of the novel by Alexander Fadeev "Young Guard." Her name is the streets in many cities of the former USSR. In the year, the bas-relief Lyubov Shevtsova is installed on the alley of the heroes of the Ulyanovsk heroes. Personal life of Lyuba Shevtsova:.