Biography of Zenkina Vali

Use Tab To Navigate Through The Menu Items. In May, the girl celebrated her fourteenth birthday, and on June 10, joyful, excited, showed her mother a commendable letter for seventh grade. About two weeks passed. It was a warm evening. Valya sat at home, read and did not notice how she fell asleep with a book in her hands. The girl woke up from a terrible roar. The Brest Fortress was the first to take the enemy’s blow in the war.

The barracks of the regiment burned. Fire tongues licked telegraph poles, like candles, burning trees. Father, having hastily dressed, hugged his mother tightly, kissed Valya and ran out of the room. Already in the doorway he shouted: - Now in the basements! .. He was a soldier, and his place was among the fighters, the defenders of the fortress. Valya never saw her father more.

He died a hero, like many defenders of the Brest Fortress. At noon with a group of women and children Valya and her mother were captured. The fascist soldiers drove them to the banks of the Mukhovets river. One wounded woman fell to the ground, and a thick sergeant man began to beat her with a butt of a rifle. The fascist fascist, twisting his hand, screamed something, pointing his hand at the Brest Fortress.

But Valya did not understand him. Then the translator spoke: - Mr. Feldfebel must shoot you, but he gives you life. For this you will go to the fortress and tell the Soviet soldiers to give up. If not, then everyone would be destroyed by the Nazis led the girl to the gate, pushed into the shoulders, and Valya was in the courtyard of the fortress among the formidable whirlwind of fire, explosions of mines and grenades, under the downpour of bullets.

The girl was seen by the defenders of the fortress. The border guards dragged Valya into the basement. She could not answer questions for a long time, only looked at the fighters and cried from excitement and joy. Then she talked about her mother, about how they drove young children along the banks of Mukhovts, about the wounded woman who was beating a German butt, about the ultimatum of the Nazis.

And she told the border guards about the atrocities of the Nazis, explained what kind of guns they had, indicated their location and remained to help our fighters.

In heavy battles, night passed. The courage of the border guards made Valya forget their fear. She went to the commander. Let me. Are you not afraid? Valya answered quietly: - No, I will not be afraid. Soon I saw Valya when I ran to the hospital to visit my comrades. Together with women, the pioneer looked after the wounded. Everyone fell in love and protected her as they could.

And there was no man among us who would not share the last piece of soldier's sugar with Valya - our little nurse. On the seventh day of the war, I was wounded, and my comrades attributed me to the dilapidated basement-capital. And again I met with Valya. I remember that I have opened heavy eyelids, and in front of me she is a little girl. She deftly, like an adult, makes a dressing.

And behind the ruins of the walls, cries of brutal fascists are heard: they are stormed. Everyone who could hold weapons, even women, became loopholes. I tried to get up, but staggered and almost fell. Then Valya set up her shoulder for me: - Lean, I can stand it and I got to the loophole, leaning on the children's shoulder. Many years have passed since then. I accidentally found out that Valya lived in the city of Pinsk, was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

She is the mother of two children. And she has long been not Valya, but Valentina Ivanovna Zenkina. And for us, the defenders of the Brest Fortress, she will forever remain Valya, Valei Pioneer Valentina Ivanovna Zenkina until the last participated in the defense of the Brest Fortress, and was captured by the Nazis. She fled from captivity, later fought against the Nazi invaders in the partisan detachment.

Housing to this day. During the war, this little fragile girl surprised adults with her fearlessness and heroism in the struggle for the independence of our Motherland. For courage and courage, Valya was awarded the Order of the Red Star.