Biography

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 NKVD of the USSR (chief of the Special Group - P.A. Sudoplatov, later - IV Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR). From 1941 he headed a special forces detachment - from August 1941 to January 1942 he headed the Mitya task force. In April 1942, he was approved as an employee of the NKVD Higher School for Special Disciplines. From June 1942 to February 1944, commander of the special-purpose partisan detachment “Winners,” operating in central and western Ukraine. Outstanding scouts N.I. acted in this detachment. Kuznetsov, N.V. Strutinsky, Africa De las Heras, doctor (future writer) A.V. Tsessarsky. Operating from June 1942 to March 1944 on the territory of the Rivne and Lvov regions of Ukraine, the detachment of D.N. Medvedev carried out over 120 major operations, destroyed a number of high-ranking officials of the occupation regime (11 generals and senior government officials), up to 2,000 German soldiers and up to 6,000 police and Ukrainian nationalists. 81 trains with manpower and equipment were blown up. During the period of its activity, the “Winners” detachment created 10 new partisan detachments. When the Soviet Army began to liberate Ukraine, D.N. Medvedev decided to go in the direction of Lvov and provide assistance to the advancing troops. And at the beginning of February 1944, he received an order to withdraw the detachment to the rear of the Red Army and crossed the front line on the 5th. Medvedev himself was wounded twice and shell-shocked once in the battles. He was treated in Moscow, and after recovery he was appointed deputy head of the 4th Directorate of the NKVD. For exemplary performance of command tasks behind enemy lines, Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 5, 1944.Read More...