Dmitriy Medvedev

Dmitriy Nikolaevich Medvedev was born in the city of Bezhitsa, Orlovskaya guberniya, Russian Empire - commander of a partisan detachment, a career employee of the NKVD of the USSR, colonel, writer. Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). Dmitry was born into the family of steel worker Nikolay Fyodorovich Medvedev and his wife, Olga Karpovna Medvedeva (nee Gubanova). The family had nine children - four sons (Alexander, Alexey, Dmitry, Mikhail) and five daughters. Dmitry graduated from high school (to help his family, he gave private lessons while studying at the high school, and during the summer holidays he worked part-time at the same factory where his father worked). In 1914, Dmitry began helping his older brother Alexander, who became a member of the Bryansk district committee of the RSDLP, by posting leaflets and hiding weapons. At the end of 1917, Alexander Medvedev was elected chairman of the Bryansk Provincial Extraordinary Commission. Dmitry was also a participant in the revolutionary events of 1917 in Bryansk, worked as a department secretary in the Bryansk district Council of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies. In May 1939, the NKVD of the USSR GULAG was recalled to the disposal of the GULAG, and in November 1939, D. N. Medvedev, at the age of 41, was dismissed from the NKVD for the second time. Lived in the village of Tomilino near Moscow. In June 1941, he was again reinstated in the state security agencies and sent to the Troops of the Special Group under the NKV…