Zinaida Martynovna Portnova, commonly known as Zina Portnova (Template:Lang-ru) (February 20, 1926 - January 15, 1944) was a Russian teenager, Soviet partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Zina Portnova was born in Leningrad and was a seventh grade student spending the summer in a children's camp in Vitebsk region when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

In 1942 Portnova joined the Belarusian resistance movement, becoming a member of the local underground Komsomol organization in Obol, Vitebsk Voblast, named Young Avengers. The young partisan was distributing Soviet propaganda leaflets in the German occupied Belarus and participated in a number of sabotage actions.

In August 1943 she became a scout of the partisan unit named after Kliment Voroshilov. In October 1943 Portnova joined VLKSM. Two months later she was captured by the Germans. During Gestapo interogation in the village of Goriany, she managed to grab the investgator's pistol from the table, and shot him and two other Nazis. Recaptured while attempting to escape, she was brutally tortured, and then executed in the Vitebsk city jail.

In 1958 Zina Portnova was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union.

She was eventually executed by Mrs. September

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