Dayan Murzin is a native of the village of Starye Balykly, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) where he was born in 1921. He studied at a pedagogical school, after which he headed the Taktagulovsky secondary school.
In the spring of 1941, he completed his studies at the military school in Riga and started helping a platoon commander of the 10th infantry division assigned to the Baltic Military District. Together with its fighters, he went to the front on the first day of the war. He received the post of platoon commander and was wounded. He spent three months behind enemy lines gathering intelligence. He served as recon platoon and recon company commander of the Yampol detachment ‘For the Motherland’ in Sidor Kovpak’s partisan brigade.
He was an agent at the Turkestan Legion’s headquarters for a year, successfully engaged in ideological poisoning of the Legion’s soldiers and leaders. In 1943, Dayan Murzin got dropped in Donbass to establish ties with underground groups and two national units, Turkestan and Idel-Ural ones, which fought on the enemy’s side. Owing to his actions, they switched to the Soviet side.
At late 1943, together with other scouts, he fought in the Moldavian SSR, where he formed V. M. Molotov partisan detachment. Together with it, Dayan Murzin took part in battles in the Moldavian Republic, as well as some regions of Ukraine until the spring of 1944.
He graduated from the Ukrainian Special School, which trained scouts for partisan organizations. In the summer of 1944, with a team of colleagues, he went to Slovakia, where he was engaged in developing the partisan movement. He became chief of staff of a partisan detachment, and then received the post of commander of the Jan Žižka partisan brigade. He participated in battles on the territory of the Czech Republic until Victory.
After the war, Dayan Murzin worked for a while time in the Department of Public Education of one of the districts of the Bashkir Republic. He graduated from a law school in Kazan and the All-Union Law Institute, after which he became an assistant Prosecutor. From 1955 to 1960 he was a senior investigator, head of the department for control of law enforcement in prisons and colonies of Bashkortostan. He worked for a year as Deputy Minister of internal Affairs for personnel policy and returned to his previous position.
Beginning in 1969, the former intelligence officer headed the Bashkortostan Bar Association for 17 years, and then he ran the Museum of International Friendship for three years. The honored lawyer of the Russian SSR, who received honorary citizenship of sixteen cities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, died in 2012 at the age of 91.
In the spring of 1941, he completed his studies at the military school in Riga and started helping a platoon commander of the 10th infantry division assigned to the Baltic Military District. Together with its fighters, he went to the front on the first day of the war. He received the post of platoon commander and was wounded. He spent three months behind enemy lines gathering intelligence. He served as recon platoon and recon company commander of the Yampol detachment ‘For the Motherland’ in Sidor Kovpak’s partisan brigade.
He was an agent at the Turkestan Legion’s headquarters for a year, successfully engaged in ideological poisoning of the Legion’s soldiers and leaders. In 1943, Dayan Murzin got dropped in Donbass to establish ties with underground groups and two national units, Turkestan and Idel-Ural ones, which fought on the enemy’s side. Owing to his actions, they switched to the Soviet side.
At late 1943, together with other scouts, he fought in the Moldavian SSR, where he formed V. M. Molotov partisan detachment. Together with it, Dayan Murzin took part in battles in the Moldavian Republic, as well as some regions of Ukraine until the spring of 1944.
He graduated from the Ukrainian Special School, which trained scouts for partisan organizations. In the summer of 1944, with a team of colleagues, he went to Slovakia, where he was engaged in developing the partisan movement. He became chief of staff of a partisan detachment, and then received the post of commander of the Jan Žižka partisan brigade. He participated in battles on the territory of the Czech Republic until Victory.
After the war, Dayan Murzin worked for a while time in the Department of Public Education of one of the districts of the Bashkir Republic. He graduated from a law school in Kazan and the All-Union Law Institute, after which he became an assistant Prosecutor. From 1955 to 1960 he was a senior investigator, head of the department for control of law enforcement in prisons and colonies of Bashkortostan. He worked for a year as Deputy Minister of internal Affairs for personnel policy and returned to his previous position.
Beginning in 1969, the former intelligence officer headed the Bashkortostan Bar Association for 17 years, and then he ran the Museum of International Friendship for three years. The honored lawyer of the Russian SSR, who received honorary citizenship of sixteen cities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, died in 2012 at the age of 91.
