Nina Sagaidak 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 Alekseevna Saygadak (better known as Nina Sagaidak ; March 12, 1927, Snovsk , Ukrainian SSR - May 19, 1943, Shchors , occupied territory of the Ukrainian SSR) - pioneer hero and underground member of the Great Patriotic War .
She is best known for her feat accomplished on the day of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Great October Revolution - broadcasting live on the radio station in the city of Shchorsa with congratulations to the Shchorsovites and an open call for partisan warfare. In addition, Nina actively acted within the framework of an underground organization, for the uninitiated officially playing two roles - the nurse of a large family, which by April 1942 remained in her care, and a dancer (“ballerina”) in a local theater troupe. Playing the second role, Nina greatly helped the partisans in their sabotage struggle, the bright episodes of which, by no means by chance, fell on the days of Nina’s concerts - after all, the entire command of the German garrison flocked to see the promising “future ballerina”.

There is no documented information left about Nina Sagaidak and her underground activities. All her closest associates in the fight against the occupiers and immediate leaders, according to well-known sources, were shot, and according to some sources, the organization itself was destroyed. The latter, however, cannot be stated with certainty, since no official data exists to confirm this fact. Just as there is no single version that would describe the underground activities of Nina and other participants in those events in a linear, chronological order. It is only known that in the first stages of her activity, Nina Sagaidak fought the occupiers spontaneously and personally, and only then somehow became part of the underground.

Although officially Nina Sagaidak is considered a pioneer hero, at the time of the outbreak of the war she, being 14 years old, had already left the pioneer age.