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Avgust Vikhnina
- Accession Number
- 2011-3-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2011-3-3
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs (electronic) : b&w and col. ; 90 MB
- Date
- 1950-2010
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of eight electronic copies of original photographs of Avgust Vikhnina. The photos relate to his career in the Soviet military during the Second World War. The photographs consist of one portrait of Avgust in military dress, several snapshots taken at a Moscow parade in commemoration of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the war, as well as snapshots taken at the Russian Embassy in Ottawa.
- Custodial History
- Photographs were loaned for copying as part of the Russian Jewish War Veterans oral history project. Originals were returned to donor.
- Administrative History
- Avgust Vikhnina was born in Kharkov, in 1926. He was 15 when the war began and was drafted in 1943. Vikhnina served in the Artillery and fought in the Ukraine, Pribaltika and Prussia. He was decorated with the Order of Patriotic War First Class, the Medal for Valour, and the Medal for Combat Merits.
- Subjects
- Soviet Union--Armed Forces
- World War, 1939-1945
- Source
- Archival Accessions