The event was held to celebrate the 115th anniversary of the birth of Soviet intelligence officer and children’s writer Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya – Rybkina.

The event was attended by representatives of the law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg, public figures, politicians and writers, as well as members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in St. Petersburg.

Outstanding Soviet intelligence officer and famous writer Zoya Voskresenskaya was born on April 28, 1907 in Tyla province into a family of railway workers. Experts describe Zoya Voskresenskaya as an excellent analyst, a sincere patriot and a person of iron principles.

She worked for foreign intelligence for more than 20 years and headed the German section. She is known to have warned the Soviet leadership about the impending Nazi invasion, and was one of the leaders of the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.

Soviet foreign intelligence colonel Zoya Voskresenskaya was also a children’s writer, whose works were published with a total circulation of more than 21 million copies.

Delegates attending the event also visited the exhibition “Female intelligence officers serving the Fatherland” of the Russian Federation, introducing outstanding female intelligence officers through many periods of the land of the White Birch.