Valya Kotik (Valentin Aleksandrovich Kotik; On February 11, 1930 — on February 17, 1944) — the pioneer hero, the young guerrilla scout, the youngest Hero of the Soviet Union. At the time of death he was 14 years old. The rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union is appropriated posthumously.
I was born on February 11, 1930 in Hmelyovk's village of the Shepetovsky area, Kamenets-Podolsky (since 1954 to the present — Hmelnitska) areas of Ukraine in a country family.