Petrov, Vladimir, 1915-1999
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Name (Latin)
Petrov, Vladimir, 1915-1999
Name (Arabic)
بتروف، فلاديمير، 1915-
Other forms of name
Petrov, Vladimir, 1915-
Piṭrūf, Vlādimīr, 1915-
Date of birth
1915
Date of death
1999-03-17
Occupation
Adventure and adventurers
Authors
Chess players
College teachers
Political prisoners
Stamp collectors
Gender
male
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Author's Soviet gold, 1949.
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Wikipedia description:
Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov (1915 in Ekaterinodar oblast, Russian Empire – March 17, 1999, in Kensington, Maryland) was at various times an academic, philatelist, prisoner, forced laborer, political prisoner, adventurer, factory worker, chess player and writer of short stories and autobiographies. He was at various times a Russian, American, and man of no country, though he was brought up in the USSR and died in the United States. Most of the information concerning his life originates from his personal memoirs, entitled Soviet Gold and My Retreat from Russia and collected in the published work Escape from the Future.
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