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, relations = , laterwork = Semyon Grigoryevich Morozov (russian: Семён Григорьевич Морозов; , Taganrog – 23 February 1943, Taganrog) was commissar of the Taganrog antifascist underground organization (1941–1943). He was posthumously awarded the

title. Semion Morozov studied at the Taganrog school No 15 for 7 years. In 1938, he graduated from the ''High Communist Agricultural School'' in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...

and was appointed chief of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda at the District Committee of

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

(Young Communist League) in the Kazanskaya

stanitsa A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Arm ...

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village) of the Verkhnedonskoy District of the

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. In 1939 Morozov worked as deputy director at the Pioneers’ Club. Then he was appointed the chief of the department of propaganda and agitation at the City Committee of Komsomol. At the same time he studied at the Taganrog Teachers' College. Since 1941 he worked as the First Secretary of the City Committee. He was engaged in the organizational activities in the occupied Taganrog. He was arrested in February 1943 and shot to death in the

Gully of Petrushino Gully of Petrushino (Russian: ''Петрушинская балка'' or ''Балка смерти'' from German: ''Todesschlucht'') is a site on the outskirts of Taganrog, Russia, at which 7,000 Soviet civilians, mostly Jews, were massacred betwe ...

. One of the streets in

was named after Semyon Morozov. A brass plaque is set on the wall of the house where he lived.

References

* The Encyclopedia of Taganrog, Second Edition, Taganrog, 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Morozov, Semion Grigorievich 1914 births 1943 deaths Politicians from Taganrog People from Don Host Oblast Russian people of World War II Heroes of the Soviet Union Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Soviet civilians killed in World War II Executed people from Rostov Oblast Executed Soviet people from Russia Russian people executed by Nazi Germany People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm Taganrog in World War II

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