Epistolary documents of the student of the Crimean Pedagogical Institute, Hero of the Soviet Union Teyfuk Abdul – a historical source about his life and feat of arms
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2025-7-2-104-117
Abstract
Based on an extensive set of materials deposited in the funds of the Museum of History of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Simferopol), the biography of a native of Crimea, a graduate of Crimean State Pedagogical Institute named after M.V. Frunze Teyfuk Amitovich Abdul, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, has been reconstructed. Numerous documents and photographs from the family archive, transferred to the University History Museum by his descendants in 2010, are used, including an autobiography compiled on December 1, 1944, shortly before his death, as well as the surviving correspondence of Teyfuk Abdul from the war period. Thanks to the documents found in the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Podolsk), the combat path of the Hero is traced, with an emphasis on his feat of arms during the forcing of the Dnieper in 1943, for which he was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. During the military actions, he was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degree and the Red Banner Order. Extracts from the award documents are provided, testifying to his courage and heroism. Letters from the front of Teyfuk Abdul, addressed to his mother, brother and sisters, are used as a meaningful historical source.
About the Authors
A. A. Nepomnyashchii
V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrei A. Nepomnyashchii, Dr. of Sci. (History)
20, Academician Vernadsky Av., Simferopol, 295007
D. A. Lomakin
V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitrii A. Lomakin, Cand. of Sci. (History)
bld. 20, Academician Vernadsky Av., Simferopol, 295007
References
1. Ishutin, O.S. (2013), “From the history of the medical service of the Minsk Suvorov Military School. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the school”, Voennaya meditsina, no. 4, pp. 146–152.
2. Khorkhordina, T.I. (2020), “Historical and documentary heritage of the Great Patriotic War. Towards the history of the documents collecting”, History and Archives, no. 4, pp. 76–96.
3. Kozlov, V.P. (2010), “Frontline letters of 1941–1945 as prayers. On .he 65th anniversary of Victory”, Herald of an Archivist, no. 2, pp. 24–47.
4. Nepomnyashchii, A.A., Lomakin, D.A. and Bebeshko, E.V. (2018), “’Functioned in spite of everything’: M.V. Frunze Crimean State Pedagogical Institute during the Great Patriotic War: Based on the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation”,in Uchenye zapiski Krymskogo federal’nogo universiteta im. V.I. Vernadskogo. Istoricheskie nauki [Scientific notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Historical science], vol. 4(70), no. 3, pp. 84–105.
5. Orekhov, V.V. and Yunusov, Sh.E. (2015), “Hero of the Soviet Union Abdul Teifuk in the wartime correspondence (documents from the funds of the Museum of History of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University)”, [Scientific Notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Historical science], vol. 1(67), no. 3, pp. 69–78.
6. Orekhov, V.V. (2016), “Hero of the Soviet Union Abdul Teifuk in the wartime correspondence (according to the documents from the funds of the Museum of History of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University)”, in Efimov, S.A., ed., Istoricheskoe nasledie Kryma [Historical heritage of Crimea], Antikva, Simferopol, Russia, pp. 90–97.
7. Polyakov, V.E. (2022), Krymskie tatary v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine [Crimean Tatars in the Great Patriotic War], Maska, Moscow, Russia.
8. Veliev, A. (2009), Geroi bessmertny: Krymskie tatary vo Vtoroi mirovoi voine [Heroes are immortal. Crimean Tatars in World War II], vol. 1, Krymuchpedgiz, Simferopol, Russia.
9. Yur’ev, P. (1984), “The red herring”, in Tret’yakov, F.A., ed., Zvezdy nemerknushchei slavy: ocherki o krymchanakh – Geroyakh Sovetskogo Soyuza [Stars of unfading glory: essays about the Crimeans – Heroes of the Soviet Union], Tavria, Simferopol, USSR, pp. 20–24.
Review
For citations:
Nepomnyashchii A.A., Lomakin D.A. Epistolary documents of the student of the Crimean Pedagogical Institute, Hero of the Soviet Union Teyfuk Abdul – a historical source about his life and feat of arms. History and Archives. 2025;7(2):104-117. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2025-7-2-104-117
Views:
282
Email this article 