Background
Nahum was born on 13 January in 1922 in the city of Gomel (Belarus) in a working-class family.
Nahum was born on 13 January in 1922 in the city of Gomel (Belarus) in a working-class family.
In 1944 Nahum studied at Army courses of party organizers. From 1946 he studied at Retraining courses for command staff.
Since 1950 he studied at Minsk Law Institute (in absentia) in Minskaya Voblasts', Belarus.
After graduating from high school Nahum worked as a turner at the Gomel machine-tool plant.
He was drafted into the army in October 1941 by the Sverdlovsk city military enlistment office. Trained in the reserve regiment in Sverdlovsk (now - Yekaterinburg) and became the commander of mortar team.
In the army since February 1942. He fought in Bryansk, South-West, Steppe, 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Participated in the battles near Voronezh in the summer of 1942, in battles near Stalingrad (as part of the 93rd separate rifle brigade of the 64th Army), in the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Belgorod, Kharkov, and many settlements of the Left Bank Ukraine.
Distinguished himself while crossing the Dnieper. September 29, 1943 as a part of the forward detachment of his regiment of the Guard, Junior Sergeant N. I. Zholudev, together with his calculation on a raft, crossed the Dnieper River near the village of Keleberda (Kremenchug district, Poltava region, Ukraine). After landing to shore, he immediately installed a mortar and opened fire, covering the crossing of the infantry divisions of the 3rd Infantry Battalion.
After being fixed on the bridgehead for six days and nights of continuous battles for holding the bridgehead, Zholudev was at all times in the combat formations of the infantry and participated in repulsing numerous enemy counterattacks by aiming his mortar fire at the enemy's living force and firing points. When the mortar NI Zholudev was left alone together with the minesman, he did not stop shooting and fired at the enemy.
On October 5, when the Germans approached the mortar position, the battle took a close hand. The mortar men were repulsed by automatic fire, grenades, butts, and sapper shovels. Zholudev defended the occupied frontier along with the infantry units, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. During these battles he was wounded, but remained on the battlefield.
Later N. Zholudev took part in the liberation of Right-bank Ukraine.
In 1944, he graduated from the army courses of party organizers and was appointed party organizer of the regiment, which freed Romania and Bulgaria. Participant of the Victory Day parade in 1945.
After the war he continued his service in the army.
After graduation from the Minsk Law Institute he served in the investigative section of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Belarusian Military District.
Since 1970, lieutenant colonel of Justice N.I. Zholudev - in reserve.
He lived in Minsk, worked as a senior legal adviser for Belssportloto. He died on December 9, 1985.
By the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR’s Decree, December 20, 1943, Junior Sergeant Zholudev Naum Ilyich was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union title “for courage and heroism shown in the forcing of the Dnieper time” and received the Gold Star (No. 3156) and Order of Lenin.
In Minsk, on the house where the Hero lived, a memorial plaque was set.
Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944.
