Yakov Dzhugashvili

Yakov Dzhugashvili
Dzhugashvili in 1941
Native name	იაკობ ჯუღაშვილი (Georgian) Яков Джугашвили (Russian)
Birth name	Iakob Iosebis dze Jughashvili
Born	31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 Baji, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	14 April 1943(1943-04-14) (aged 36) Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Nazi Germany
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service / branch	Red Army
Years of service	1941–1943
Rank	Lieutenant
Battles / wars	Second World War Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa Battle of Smolensk (POW)
Awards	Order of the Red Banner Order of the Patriotic War
Spouse(s)	Zoya Gunina Yulia Meltzer
Children	Infant daughter Yevgeny Dzhugashvili Galina Dzhugashvili

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili^[a] (31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family. In 1921, when Dzhugashvili had reached the age of fourteen, he was brought to Moscow, where his father had become a leading figure in the Bolshevik government, eventually becoming head of the Soviet Union. Disregarded by Stalin, Dzhugashvili was a shy, quiet child who appeared unhappy and attempted suicide several times as a youth. Married twice, Dzhugashvili had three children, two of whom reached adulthood.

Dzhugashvili studied to become an engineer, then – on his father's insistence – he enrolled in training to be an artillery officer. He finished his studies weeks before Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Sent to the front, he was imprisoned by the Germans and died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943 after his father refused to make a deal to secure his release.
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