A scout, the hero of the Great Patriotic War, the hero of Czechoslovakia and honourable citizen of 15 cities of Czechia, Slovenia and Moravia. He was born in Bashkiria in 1921. In the years of the Second World War, he was the commander of the international partisan brigade on the territory of occupied Czechoslovakia. The fascists called him “The black general”, though he was just a mayor of the Soviet Army. Adolph Hitler and the main saboteur of the III Reich Otto Skorzeny declared him their main personal enemy and several million Reich marks was promised for his capture. But Dayan Murzin has never been captured. Dayan Murzsin was much written about and several films about him were shot in Russia, England, Germany and Czechia. The book by John Harland, who served together with Dayan Murzin, was published in the Great Britain.

Today Dayan Murzin is a pensioner; he is an activist of veteran movement and takes part in the work for patriotic youth education.