Ulyana Gromov biography

Her father, a former Poltava peasant, participated in the Russian-Japanese and First World War, was awarded three St. George Crosses. The elder brother of Ulyana Elisha from the first days of the Great Patriotic War fought the pilot at the front. She was an excellent student and activist, repeatedly received commendable letters. When the war began, she ended the ninth grade.

In June, Ulyana received a certificate of graduation, and already in the middle of July, Krasnodonsky district was occupied by German troops. She could not be evacuated, because her mother was sick at that time and she could not be left unattended. As soon as the occupation of Krasnodon began, several fighters of the Red Army, who found themselves in the rear of the Germans, created an underground organization, which later appropriated the name “Young Guard”.

Gromova, together with several young people, Mayor entered it in September, and already in October she was elected a member of the organization’s headquarters. The feat of Ulyana Gromova in the young Guard of the Young Guard distributed anti -fascist leaflets, made sabotage at city enterprises. On the night of November 7, in honor of the anniversary of the October Revolution, Ulyana with two friends hung a red flag on one of the schools of the village.

The same campaign was held by other young heads in Krasnodon, hanging the red flags on the highest buildings of the city. A month later, on December 6, the young underground workers burned the labor exchange, where the lists of people were stored intended for removal for forced labor in Germany. Thousands of young people - the inhabitants of Krasnodon and the surrounding villages were saved and remained on their native land.

Before the approach of the front, the Krasnodar underground in the rear of the Germans was preparing an armed uprising. On the eve of the New Year, the Young Guards made a daring attack on German cars with New Year's gifts for the Wehrmacht soldiers and officers. In the wake of this raid, the Gestapo and the police went on the trace of the organization.

Starting from January 5, the Gestapo began mass arrests of the underground participants. A month later, on February 14, Soviet troops entered the city. The thunder body raised to the surface kept traces of numerous torture. She was buried on March 1 in the mass grave of the Young Guards on the central square of Krasnodon, on which the Memorial “Young Guard” was later installed.

In the year, Alexander Fadeev’s novel “The Young Guard”, telling about the feat of the newlywords. For his motives in the year at the film studio. In many cities of the former USSR, streets are named after her name. On one of these streets, in the city of Togliatti, in the year she was opened by a monument in the form of a high -relief minelo from a forged copper, which was installed on a white wall.