- Jānis Judeņš
Jānis Judeņš [English spelling: YAH-nees YOO-densh] ( _ru. Ю́дин Я́н Андре́евич, trans. Yan Yudin or _ru. Я́нис Ю́деньш, trans. Yanis Yudensh,
1884 -August 12 1918 ) was aRed Latvian Riflemen commander, a Red hero of theRussian Civil War .As a
Latvian Rifleman Jānis Judeņš participated in theFirst World War andRussian Civil War . Since April 1918 he was a commander of the Third Latvian Rifle Brigade ( _ru. 3-я Латышская Стрелковая бригада). In August 1918,Czech Legion andKomUch People's Army pressed theRed Army fromKazan . On8 August 1918 , Judeņš with his staff arrived at the Krasnaya Gorka railway station, a suburb of Kazan. There, the Left Bank Group of the 5th Army was subordinated him. On12 August 1918 , he was killed in action near the station. [TES|Jānis Judeņš/Янис Юдин] He was killed by shell detonation.On
14 August 1918 , the Soviet of the People's Commissars underVladimir Lenin decreed to rename Krasnaya Gorka toYudino , after Jānis Judeņš. It was the first inhabited locality, renamed by Soviet power after the Civil War Red hero. [ru icon К. Амиров. "Казань: Где эта улица, где этот дом?" Kazan, 1995]References and notes
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