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      THE SOVIET QUIZ - 2011 - QUIZ CLOSED

      in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria

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      Hi Jim,

      They are :

      Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky (Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Космодемья́нский); July 27, 1925 - April 13, 1945).

      and

      Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (Зо́я Анато́льевна Космодемья́нская) :(September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941).

      They are brother and sister.

      They are each hero of the Soviet Union.

      They have been awarded their HSU posthumously.

      Aleksandr was a first lieutnant who was bestowed the HSU after having fallen in East Prussia.

      Zoya was a Soviet partisan, hanged by the Germans for Houses burning. She was one of the most revered heroes of the USSR.

      Ch.

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      THE SOVIET QUIZ - 2011 - QUIZ CLOSED

      in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria

      Posted

      Christophe - as you are the daddy of the quiz is there anything else that you might like to add?

      Jim,

      Nothing to add. :)

      We already talked about the situation by PM.

      I would like to thank you again for reviving the Quiz, and taking care of it... It is your baby as well !! :))

      Let's press the reset button and go ahead !!

      I think, if UB6365 agrees, that the point should go to Gunner1, for him to propose the next challenge... Correct ?

      Cheers.

      Ch.

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      THE SOVIET QUIZ - 2011 - QUIZ CLOSED

      in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria

      Posted

      I am Private Ivan Chonkin, from "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin".

      My father is Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich.

      From Wikipedia :

      "Voinovich was born to father of Serbian descent, journalist, and mother of Jewish descent, professor of mathematics. His ancestor, Ivo Vojnović, was a prominent writer from Dubrovnik.

      Voinovich is famous for his satiric fiction but also wrote some poetry. While working for Moscow radio in the early 1960s, he produced the lyrics for the cosmonauts' anthem, Fourteen Minutes Till the Start ("14 минут до старта"). Between 1951 and 1955, Voinovich also served in the Soviet Army during peace time.

      At the outset of the Brezhnev stagnation period, Voinovich's writings stopped being published in the USSR, but became very popular samizdat and in the West. For his writing and participation in the human rights movement, Voinovich was excluded from the Soviet Writers' Union in 1974, his telephone line was cut off in 1976 and he and his family were forced to emigrate in 1980. He settled in Munich, West Germany and worked for Radio Liberty.

      Voinovich helped publish Vasily Grossman's famous novel Life and Fate by smuggling photo films secretly taken by Andrei Sakharov.

      Mikhail Gorbachev restored his Soviet citizenship in 1990 and since then the writer spends most of his time in the new Russia. Widowed in 2004 and married for the 3rd time, he now lives in Moscow. Voinovich has a son by his first wife and a daughter, Olga, by his second wife, the recently deceased, Irina. Voinovich has won many international awards and honor titles, such as State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000), Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage (2002), and more. Since 1995 he has ventured into graphic arts and sells his paintings in Russian galleries and on the Web."

      Ch.

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      THE SOVIET QUIZ - 2011 - QUIZ CLOSED

      in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria

      Posted · Edited by Christophe

      Hi to all,

      Here are the explanations about the challenge I posted, and won by UB6365. Congrats again to you, UB6365 !! :jumping: :jumping:

      Who am I ?

      The car brand Chaika (Ча́йка), a luxury automobile brand from the USSR, made by GAZ.

      Chaika production consisted of two generations. The mark 1 Chaika, the GAZ M13, was produced from 1959 to 1981, and is the more famous and more numerous with more than 3,100 examples built during the 22 year production run.

      The vintage 1950s-style M13 was succeeded by the more modern Chaika M14 introduced in 1977 (although production of both versions overlapped by several years). The Chaika M14 remained in production from 1977 to 1988, after which point the Chaika limousine brand was ended.

      I'm not a bird... Chaika means "seagull" in Russian...

      I'm not a play... The famous play of Anton Checkhov, The Seagull...

      I'm not a prosecutor... Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika is the current Prosecutor General of Russia...

      I am born in 1959 and died before being 40 years old... Produced from 1959 to 1988...

      My parents were from the USA... Chaika M13 was visually a near-clone of the 1955 Packard Patrician and Mercury...

      Hint #1 : My skin is black, even if some of my sisters could be of different colour... Generally produced in black (official car...).

      Hint #2 : each sentence is important. And the three following are linked... See above...

      Hint #3 : I'm born in Gorki, today Nizhni Novgorod... GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, translated as Gorky Automobile Plant (ГАЗ or Го́рьковский автомоби́льный заво́д),

      Here it is...

      Now, back to UB6365's question...

      Ch.

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