Theodor Nette

Theodor Nette (Template:Lang-ru, b. 1895 or 1896 — d. February 5, 1926, Moscow-Riga train, Latvia) - a Soviet diplomatic courier of NKID, who died in a terrorist attack on the Soviet train while delivering diplomatic mail to Berlin. Vladimir Mayakovsky published a poem praising his death - "To Comrade Nette, the Man and the Ship" (1926).

Legacy

The attacks echoed wide around the USSR.

• A year after the tragic events Alexander Dovzhenko releases a film The Diplomatic Pouch (Template:Lang-ru, 1927).
• Nette was posthumously awarded with the Order of the Red Banner together with his wounded colleague Iogann Mahmastal
• The steamship Tver was renamed in his honour. Later his name was given to the two ships of the Soviet Northern Sea Steamship Line (Sovtorgflot) consequently - gas-turbine ship of 1963 and the timber ship of 1990 (Pavlin Vinogradov class was similar to the Iogann Mahmastal timber ship (currently, Northern Shipping Company). Currently, no ship bears his name.
• Nette's daughter, who was only 1 year old at time of father's death, was cared by State.
• February 5 became an official remembrance day of fallen diplomatic couriers.
• Odessa Film release a film in 1977 named Red Dipcouriers based on the story of the attack on Nette and Mahmastal.

External links

• 5 February
• Vladimir Mayakovsky
• The Diplomatic Pouch at IMDb (1927)
• Red Dipcouriers at IMDb (1977)