Mia Ulman's father Yakov Plotkin at the Political Department of the Red Army

Mia Ulman's father Yakov Plotkin at the Political Department of the Red Army

This is my father Yakov Plotkin at the Political Department of the Red Army. He is third from right, sitting at the table. The picture was taken in 1919.

My father was born in 1899 in the small town of Rogachev, Belarus. He graduated from the Chemical Pharmaceutical Institute and served in the Red Army as of 1918.
When the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, he signed up for the People's Volunteer Corps, but he was brought back to the plant, because he had been wounded on his ear during the Civil War. He had an operation and his hearing became bad afterwards.

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