Arnold Fabrikant and his wife Nathalia Yampolskaya

Arnold Fabrikant and his wife Nathalia Yampolskaya

This is me with my wife Nathalia Yampolskaya in the museum of our 68th Navy brigade. This photo was taken in the village of Kabardinskaya in 1995. We are wearing Navy berets here. In the 1980s regular meetings of veterans of the 68th Navy brigade began. In Odessa we keep in touch with Nadia Leschina who had raised the sailors in attack. In 1983 we took her to Matveyev Kurgan where Hill 101 used to be. A monument to the deceased land troopers of our brigade has been erected there. In the village of Kabardinskaya there is a museum dedicated to our brigade. We also traveled across the routes of our brigade in Lithuania and Belarus. These trips were organized by Party organs and administration of these areas as their propagandistic activities. Using the materials of these meetings and having worked with documents from archives I wrote a book about our brigade. At my request the veterans sent me their memorials. I realized there was nobody else to do this job and everything might have been forgotten. I need to give due to the Soviet times, saying that veterans were honored then. They were given awards annually on Victory Day and other memorial dates.
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