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Jānis Judins - Personālizstāde Liepāja muzejā
Janis Judins (Latvian: Janis Judins; Russian: YÚdin Yán andréevich, trans. Yan Yudin, also known in Russian as Yánis YÚdin'sh, 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 Judins 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-ya Latishskaya Strelkovaya brigada). In August 1918, Czech Legion and KomUch People's Army pressed the Red Army from Kazan. On 8 August 1918, Judens 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, after Janis Judins. It was the first inhabited locality, renamed by Soviet power after the Civil War Red hero.