1. Ulyana Matveyevna Gromova was a Soviet partisan who was a member of the Young Guard resistance movement in Krasnodon, in modern-day eastern Ukraine.
15 Facts About Ulyana Gromova
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Ulyana Gromova was executed by the Nazis in 1943, along with the rest of the Young Guard's leadership, and was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Ulyana Gromova's father, Matthew Maximovich Gromov, was born in 1880 in Poltava Province of Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Gromova's mother was born on 1884 and was housewife; the family had five children, Ulyana being the youngest.
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In March 1940 Ulyana Gromova joined the Komsomol.
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At the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Ulyana Gromova was 17 years old and in tenth grade.
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Ulyana Gromova was graduated from high school with good-to-excellent marks on 3 June 1942.
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When her home province was occupied by German troops, which began on 17 July 1942, Ulyana Gromova was not able to evacuate because she needed to care for her sick mother.
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In October 1942 Ulyana Gromova was elected a member of staff of the organization.
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Ulyana Gromova took an active part in the preparations for armed resistance, the creation and dissemination of anti-fascist leaflets, collecting medicines and campaigning among the population, urging them to not obey the enemy and to disrupt plans to supply the Germans with material and impress Soviet youth to work in Germany.
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Ulyana Gromova was severely beaten and tortured during interrogation, but she stayed true to her oath to her motherland and comrades and did not reveal details of the underground's activities.
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Ulyana Gromova was hunged by her hair, burned with hot irons, had a five-pointed star cut into her back and the wound rubbed with salt, and suffered a broken arm and broken ribs.
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Ulyana Gromova endured her suffering stoically, and even cheered her imprisoned comrades by reciting Lermontov's epic poem Demon, which she knew by heart.
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Ulyana Gromova is a character in Alexander Fadeyev's 1946 novel The Young Guard, which was included in school curriculums.
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On 1 July 1986 the vessel "Ulyana Gromova" was launched in Peleduy, a town of the Sakha Republic.