IGOR VALENTINOVICH
ZHOLUDEV

I, Igor Valentinovich Zholudev, was born into the family of public servants in Leningrad on 15 February 1925. In 1933 I went to school. When the war broke out, I joined militia troops. I was enlisted in the batallion of the Dzerzhinskiy District of Leningrad. In October 1941, I went to school again – the 10th grade in the high school № 183. But in January 1942, I was evacuated from Leningrad because I was swollen from starvation. I, my mother and my brother lived in the city of Kemerovo. In spring 1942, I started to work at the Voskresensk machine-tractor station as a record keeper and a tractor driver. In October 1942, I resumed studies in the 10th grade at the 4th high school in Kemerovo.
In January 1943, I was called into the army. I was sent to the training batallion of the 35th artillery regiment. From January 1944, I was on the Leningradsky Front, later on the Second Belorussian Front, in the 871st light artillery regiment. From July 1945, I was on combat duty in the 635th mortar regiment and in the 126th guards heavy self-propelled tank regiment. In February 1948, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR I demobilized and returned to Leningrad. In March 1948, I began to work at the Oktyabrskaya Railway...

...as a keeper of a meteorological station. In September I moved to Minsk as a permanent place of residence. In September 1950, I began to work as a manager of the administrative support office at the Institute of Foreign Languages and, at the same time, to study at the Energetics Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute. In 1952, I entered the English Language Faculty of the Institute of Foreign Languages and graduated it in 1956. During those years I worked as an assistant at the Institute of Foreign Languages. Presently, I work at the V.I. Lenin State Belorussian Library as a senior librarian.
My father, Valentin Yakovlevich Zholudev, lives in Leningrad. Engineer-Major.
My mother, Aleksandra Timofeyevna Zholudeva, also lives in Leningrad. Engineer.
My brother, Yuri, born in 1926, presently serving in the Soviet Army. Senior lieutenant, assistant to regimental executive officer.
My sister, Kira, born in 1938, lives in Leningrad, studies at a technical college.
I am married. My wife, Lyudmila Nikolayevna Zholudeva, born in 1925, works at the Minsk State Teachers’ Institute of Foreign Languages as a head teacher.
My daugher, Olga, was born in 1951.

29 July 1956

I. V. Zholudev. May, 2002.

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