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 a Red Latvian Riflemen commander, a Red hero of the Russian Civil War.

As a Latvian Rifleman Jānis Judeņš participated in the First World War and Russian 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 and KomUch People's Army pressed the Red Army from Kazan. On 8 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. On 12 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 under Vladimir Lenin decreed to rename Krasnaya Gorka to Yudino, 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]

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