Lev Davydovich Zorko (28.07.1924 - went missing after September 25, 1941 / officially - in December 1942) was born in Moscow, the only child of David Leontievich Zorko (a Belarusian peasant from under the city of Grodno, since 1918 - a Red Army soldier, party and Soviet worker, "twenty-five thousander") and his wife Lidia Gavrilovna (maidens name Tarakanova, from a family of Moscow shopkeepers). He lived his short life in B. Gnezdnikovsky Lane, in the house of Nirnsee. Having buried his father in his adolescence, Lev finished 8 (or 9) classes and dreamed of entering a military school. In early July 1941, at the age of 17, he volunteered for the People's Militia from the plant ATE-1 (he was listed as one of the workers). He said nothing to his mother, only to his uncle, V.G. Tarakanov, with whom he signed up for the militia. He got into the 2nd division, together with all of the rest he began training in the Moscow region and soon was noted in the factory newspaper "Electric", as setting an example in mastering knowledge. At the end of July, during a long hike of the 2nd Division, he scrubbed his feet and fell behind his part. From the outpost at Novoduginskaya station he was sent to the assembly point, where, having added two years of age, he signed up for the 4th company of the 16th Border Guard Regiment (postal address: VPS No. 871, item 78/4) and started shooting training near the town of Gzhatsk. On August 10, he took the military oath. On September 25, 1941 he wrote to his mother: "We have finished our training, we are on our way to perform a combat mission". There was no more news from him, and all the letters addressed to him and, later, to the commander of his company, were returned with the note "the addressee left unknown where to". Lev Davydovich Zorko was officially declared "missing” in December 1942. His mother (see photo in the Photo Album) searched for him all the remaining 35 years of his life, but she could not find any information about the comrades, the circumstances of his death and the place of burial. Zorko's parents rest in the Donskoy cemetery and in the lobby of the Nirnsee house on B. Gnezdnikovsky Lane, str. 10, where Lev Zorko was born and from where he left to go to the front, there is a memorial plaque with the names of the inhabitants of the house who have not returned from the Great Patriotic War. Lev Zorko is among them.