Jānis Judiņš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jānis Judiņš

Latvian rifleman

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1884

Place of Birth: Liezēre Parish, Madona Municipality, Latvia

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1918

Profession: military officer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Janis Judinš (Latvian: Janis Judinš; Russian: ?´??? ?´? ?????´????, trans.
Yan Yudin, also known in Russian as ?´??? ?´?????, trans.
Yanis Yudinsh, January 17, 1884, in Liezere parish - August 12, 1918) was a Red Latvian Riflemen commander, a Red hero of the Russian Civil War. As a Latvian Rifleman Janis Judinš participated in the First World War and Russian Civil War.
Since April 1918 he was a commander of the Third Latvian Rifle Brigade (Russian: 3-? ????????? ?????????? ???????).
In August 1918, Czech Legion and KomUch People's Army pressed the Red Army from Kazan.
On 8 August 1918, Judenš 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 by shell detonation. On 14 August 1918, the Soviet of the People's Commissars under Vladimir Lenin decreed to rename Krasnaya Gorka to Yudino (today part of Kazan), after Janis Judinš.
It was the first inhabited locality, renamed by Soviet power after the Civil War Red hero.