Nina Kukoverova A-3 Leningrad Patriotic war Poster

Orgin: Leningrad, USSR. 1972

State: early antique

Size: A-3 / 30x42cm

A-3 size original poster of Pioneers & Heroes

Featuring:

Nina Kukoverova ( November 25 , 1927 - December 1943 ) - pioneer hero, partisan, intelligence officer of the Great Patriotic War , tortured and killed by the Nazis in December 1943.

She was born on November 25 , 1927 in the city of Leningrad into a large working-class family. As a child, she had measles and began to stutter. In 1935, Nina became a student at the Leningrad school. In the summer, the family went on vacation to the village of Nechepert, Tosnensky district, where they rented a house. In June 1941, they met the Great Patriotic War there, on vacation. At the end of August, German troops occupied the village of Shapki and the village of Nechepert. In the first days of the war, my father was called up to the front, and Nina and her family were in the village. She began to help the partisans by hanging laundry in front of the window, indicating the presence of the Germans. If the enemy was absent, the laundry was removed.

In 1942, all family members were sent to a German camp in the city of Gatchina, and two months later they were transferred to the village of Ulitino, Idritsky district, Velikoluksky region. The Kukoverovs moved into the house of the family of partisan Nikolai Babanov. It was from that moment that the girl decided to join the partisans.

From the profile of the former Komsomol member of the Idritsa underground Komsomol organization Nina Kukoverova:

“On a cold December evening in 1942, a black-haired, black-eyed girl, Nina, came to the headquarters of the Botov detachment of the 1st Kalinin Partisan Brigade; she looked about 12 years old. The detachment commander talked for a long time and carefully with Nina and found out that she had decided to connect her life with the partisan detachment to take revenge on the German fascists for his father who died on the Leningrad Front." 

The girl was assigned to a reconnaissance platoon. She walked around populated areas, begged for food - under this legend she carried out reconnaissance work and posted leaflets. Soon German troops were driven out of this area, and Nina continued to work on the Sebezh-Idritsa railway and on the Sebezh-Polotsk highway. She assessed the movement of train trains and car columns. I had to work a lot with local residents - I received reports and brought them to the population, I was a liaison for the underground Komsomol organization. At the end of 1943, she took part in the destruction of the SS base in the village of Gory. According to the information she obtained, a successful operation was carried out.

The Germans spent a long time hunting for the partisan Kukoverova, even promising a reward for information about her. In December 1943, while carrying out a mission, the traitorous elder handed her over to the punitive forces. Nina was tortured and tormented for a long time. She did not give out information about the location of the partisan detachments. The Nazis first cut off her arm and leg, cut off her chest and sprinkled it with salt, and threw her into the basement to die with a noose around her neck.

She was buried in Idritsa , Sebezh region , now Pskov region, in a mass grave. For many years, the place of memory of her was the village of Shapki , Tosnensky district, Leningrad region.

In memory:

A “Memorial Plaque” was installed on the building of the Shapkinsky Village Council to Nina Kukoverova.

In 1970, a motor ship was named after Nina, which today has already been disposed of.

One of the streets in Shapki is named after Nina Kukoverova.