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Zinaida Portnova

1926 - 1944

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Zinaida Martynovna Portnova (Russian: Зинаида Мартыновна Портнова; 20 February 1926 – 15 January 1944) was a Soviet partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. She is known for sabotaging and poisoning German troops during World War II before being captured, tortured and then killed at the age of 17. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zinaida Portnova is the 255th most popular social activist (up from 361st in 2019), the 733rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,210th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Zinaida Portnova ranks 255 out of 840Before her are Kate Sheppard, Peter Nguyen Van Hung, Leymah Gbowee, Edward Snowden, Djamila Bouhired, and Haim Arlosoroff. After her are Attica, Emmett Till, Coretta Scott King, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Eunus, and Nancy Wake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Zinaida Portnova ranks 151Before her are Rafi Eitan, Muhammad al-Badr, Gordon Scott, Valerio Zurlini, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, and Jérôme Lejeune. After her are Jeffrey Hunter, Karel Reisz, Morton Feldman, Philippe Chatrier, Amadeo Carrizo, and Per Wahlöö. Among people deceased in 1944, Zinaida Portnova ranks 127Before her are Hans Krása, Adelbert Schulz, André Abegglen, Fritz Pfeffer, Pavel Haas, and Amy Beach. After her are Josef Bürckel, Kosta Pećanac, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Emanuel Ringelblum, Paul Hazard, and Agustín Barrios.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Zinaida Portnova ranks 733 out of 3,761Before her are Lev Rudnev (1885), Ivan Maisky (1884), Catherine of Brandenburg (1604), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Valeriy Brumel (1942), and Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952). After her are Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Andrei Mironov (1941), Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (1896), Eugen Leviné (1883), Yegor Gaidar (1956), and Leonid Krasin (1870).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Zinaida Portnova ranks 18Before her are Ales Bialiatski (1962), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Dmitry Muratov (1961), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890). After her are Vera Figner (1852), Yuri Levitan (1914), Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Pavel Pestel (1793), and Feodosia Morozova (1632).