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{{short description|Hero of the Soviet Union}}
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'''Semyon Grigoryevich Morozov''' ({{langx|ru|Семён Григорьевич Морозов}}; {{OldStyleDate|25{{nbsp}}September|1914|12{{nbsp}}September}}{{snd}}23{{nbsp}}February 1943) was commissar of the [[Taganrog resistance movement|Taganrog antifascist underground organization]] (1941–1943). He was posthumously awarded the [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] title. 

Semion Morozov studied at the [[Mariinskaya Gymnasium|Taganrog school No 15]] for 7 years. In 1938, he graduated from the ''High Communist Agricultural School'' in [[Rostov-on-Don]] and was appointed chief of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda at the District Committee of [[Komsomol]] (Young Communist League) in the Kazanskaya [[stanitsa]] ([[Cossack]] village) of the [[Verkhnedonskoy District]] of the [[Rostov Oblast]]. In 1939 Morozov worked as deputy director at the [[Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union|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 [[Taganrog]] was named after Semyon Morozov. A brass plaque is set on the wall of the house where he lived.

==See also==
* [[Taganrog during World War II]]

==References==
* The Encyclopedia of Taganrog, Second Edition, Taganrog, 2003

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