Mardanshin Garif Mardanshevich
Red Army soldier of the 601st rifle regiment of the Red Army. Shot in Tomsk prison (1942)
Born in 1910, native of the village of Verkhnie Bishindy, Tuymazinsky District, Bashkir ASSR*, Bashkir, semi-literate, no military registration, married. Red Army soldier of the 601st Rifle Regiment of the Red Army. He was accused of the fact that "while at the front in one of the sectors of the western direction, with the aim of evading further service in the Red Army and leaving the front, on October 29, 1941, being alone in the trenches, he cut off the 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers of his left hand with the point of a sapper shovel," i.e. a crime under Art. 193-12, paragraph "B" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. By decision of the military tribunal, he was sentenced to capital punishment -- death by firing squad. The sentence was carried out in Tomsk Prison on February 16, 1942.
* At the time of birth (1910): Village of Verkhnie Bishindy Tyumenyakovskaya.vol. Belebeevsky district, Samara province.
Source: Archival file of prisoner G.M. Mardanshin // Archive of the Memorial Museum "NKVD Investigative Prison"
