Dudin Timofey Ilyich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: major. Branch of military: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 12th division of the NKVD troops for the protection of especially important industrial enterprises. From the document of the Secretariat of the Deputy. The NKVD (the troops): Dudin Timofey Ilyich (21.01.1892-19.10.1944), representative of the command and commanding staff of the OGPU-NKVD, major. Born on January 21, 1892, a native of the North Dvina province, Nikolsky uyezd, d. Surovtsy. He served in the Tsarist army. Participated in the First World war and the Civil war. In 1941, major T. I. Dudin was the head of the 4th Department of the headquarters of the 12th Libavsky border detachment of the PV NKVD of the Baltic district. Participant of the great Patriotic war from 22.6.1941 during the defense of Libava. He went missing no later than 24.11.1941. (RGVA f. 32880 op. 1D.147 l. 561) Major T. I. Dudin was captured on July 01, 1941 in Riga. He died in the Stalag 350 pow camp on October 19, 1944 during an air RAID. In the questionnaire, he reported the place of birth of the KGB And indicated the last place of service of the 13th SD, the military rank of major. The fact of service in the NKVD PV before the enemy was not disclosed. He was awarded the St. George cross of the 1st degree (in fact, his great-grandfather was awarded 4 crosses, but they had to be hidden from the Soviet authorities). From the memoirs of major V. I. Yakushev, former head of the 12th Libavsky border detachment of the NKVD of the Baltic district: "Now for the third time he had to take up arms. Major T. I. Dudin went to break through the enemy encirclement, hiding the banner of our border guard under his tunic. T. I. Dudin was a highly disciplined commander and a very modest man. From the stories of the border guards who managed to break out of the encirclement, it is clear that among them was major Dudin, who was seen in the forests of Kurzeme. What was his fate? One of the border guards wrote to me after the war that Dudin was allegedly captured. I have known Dudin for many years from working together and am convinced that the banner did not fall into the hands of the enemy. ""in June of the forty-first..." (Pages of the heroic defense of Liepaja) RIGA "AVOTS", 1986 From the data of OBD-memorial. Captured on July 1, 1941 in the battle to defend the capital of Latvia, Riga. Died in captivity. Immortalized in the book Of memory of border guards (vol . 1), but as allegedly lost in the mythical Riga oflag-53 (actually stationed in the Memel region of East Prussia), and not in the Bavarian oflag-13D. My great-grandfather was buried in Germany, in the city of Nuremberg, in the southern cemetery, 19 plate, 74 table.