Pavel Matisovich Arman

Pavel (Pol) Matisovich Arman, born Pēteris Pauls Tiltiņš and known as "Major Greize", 4 April 1903 – 7 August 1943. A Soviet officer, colonel, and the first tank soldier in the history of the Red Army to be made a Hero of the Soviet Union. The title was conferred in 1936 for action in Spain, before the Great Patriotic War; he is in this archive on confirmed participation in that war, having been killed at the front on 7 August 1943. He was the brother of the intelligence officer Alfred Tiltiņš, a holder of the Order of Lenin.