Zinaida Portnova or Zina Portnova (Russian: Зина Портнова) (February 20, 1925 - January 15, 1944) - Russian teenager , Soviet partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Zina Portnova was born in Leningrad and was a seventh grade student spending summer in a childrens camp in Vitebsk region then Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

In 1942 Portnova joined the Belarusian resistance movement. Young partisan was destributing Soviet propaganda leaflets in the German occupied Belarus and participated in a number of sabotage actions.

In August of 1943 she became a scout of the partisan unit named after Kliment Voroshilov. She was captured by the Germans tortured and killed.

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

• War Hero Zinaida Portnova - Biography in Russian