Semyon Grigoryevich Morozov (; 23February 1943) was commissar of the Taganrog antifascist underground organization (1941–1943). He was posthumously awarded the

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union () was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society. The title was awarded both ...

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

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

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(Young Communist League) in the Kazanskaya

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(

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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. One of the streets in

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

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* 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 Communists executed by Nazi Germany

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