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Efim (Haim) Mordukhovich Yasnogorodsky

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This photo shows Efim Matveevich Yasnogorodsky, who was the younger brother of my mother, Broha. His Jewish name was Haim Mordukhovich Yasnogorodsky.

He was born in the city of Saratov, but the family was originally from the town of Belaya Zerkov, near Kiev.

At the end of the 1920s he moved to Leningrad. From childhood wanted to become a composer. Worked at the Institute of Citizen officers, there organized club of meetings with famous writers. That club was visited by Babel.

He worked at the executive committee of Lenplan. During the Second World War was on front. After the break of the Leningrad blockade he was demobilized from the front to help restoration of the city. Photo was made in Leningrad during the war.

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