Archives for 2020
75 years – end of WWII and 45 years – end of Vietnam War.
RUSSIAN AMERICANS in the US Military List:(The Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard are the armed forces of the United States)
NAME in English (Last, First, Middle): __________________________________________NAME in Russian (ФИО): ____________________________________________________
DATE of Birth (mm/dd/year): _________ _________ _________PLACE of Birth (City, State, Country): __________________________________________
If not born in US, when & from where immigrated to US: ________ __________________Which BRANCH of the US Military did you serve: ________________________________
RANK: ___________________________________________________________________Where were you STATIONED: ________________________________________________
Which WAR were you in: _____________________ TERM (S): ____________________If you served in more than one war or more than one term, please indicate: _____________ _________________________________________________________________________
Please list any MEDALS, AWARDS, CITATIONS you may have received: ____________
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_________________________________________________________________________OTHER (Any other pertinent info you wish to add): _______________________________ _________________________________________________________________________
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YOUR NAME (Please indicate self or if filling out for someone else, relationship to you,
with your contact info): RELATIONSHIP (e.g. SELF, father, grandfather, uncle, friend, other, please indicate): ______________________ NAME: ______________________________
ADDRESS (w/city/state): _____________________________________________________
CONTACT INFO: Tele: ____________________ Email: ____________________________
Please email your form to CRA.HQ.SF@gmail.com along with any PHOTOS you may have
CRA is a proud partner with Fort Ross in announcing the Fort Ross Dialogue 2020.
- Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov
- Professor Rose Gottemoeller, Past Deputy Secretary General of NATO
- Four-term Governor of California Edmund G. Brown in conversation with Dr. Henry Kissinger.
- Monday, November 30th at 7:30am Pacific/10:30am Eastern/6:30pm Moscow time. Monday’s session will run for approximately 2.5 hours
- Tuesday, December 1st through Friday, December 4th: These sessions will start at 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 7pm Moscow time and the program will run for approximately 90 minutes per day.
- Monday, November 30th: Fostering Peace In a Time of Nuclear Proliferation; followed by Gov. Jerry Brown in conversation with Dr. Henry Kissinger
- Tuesday, December 1st: Present and Future of Global Energy Industry
- Wednesday, December 2nd: US-Russia Health Cooperation: Borderless Threats Require Global Solutions, featuring top-tier international scientists from Russian, U.S., and beyond.
- Thursday, December 3rd: Native American Heritage Commission Digital Atlas
- Friday, December 4th: Historic & Contemporary Land Management Practices.
100 YEARS COMMEMORATION OF THE EVACUATION FROM THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA
This year marks 100 years since the “Great Exodus” – the evacuation of the Crimea (November 13-16, 1920) an event in the Russian Civil War, in which the Russian State evacuated over sea from the Crimean Peninsula, their last stronghold, on the Southern Front (Sevastopol, Yevpatoria, Kerch, Feodosia, Yalta). Organized and led by Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich von Wrangel, nearly 150,000 soldiers, civilians and crew were evacuated. Wrangel’s White “Black Sea” fleet, foreign ships & temporarily mobilized, in total 126 ships of the Voluntary fleet sailed to Constantinople. While some of the evacuees left the ships here, a significant number of emigre’ soldiers and their families evacuated to other locations such as Gallipoli, the island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea and the Tunisian port of Bizerte.
From there, many went to European countries, such as Yugoslavia, where they found refuge. The soldiers and civilians who stayed or were left behind in the Crimea, suffered under the “Red Terror” organized by the new Soviet government, authorized by Vladimir Lenin. The White Army soldiers had been falsely promised amnesty if they surrendered.
In memory of those who evacuated, leaving behind their homeland (many, never to return) and for those who stayed behind and succumbed to the “red terror” of the Bolsheviks and Soviet Red Army, memorial services will be held at churches throughout the US and the world, including panihida after Divine Liturgy at the Russian Orthodox Church of All Russian Saints Outside Russia in Burlingame and the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, DC. on Sunday, November 15, 2020 and at the Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral outside the church next to the Russian World War I Veterans memorial on Sunday, November 22, 2020. All COVID-19 state restrictions will be enforced, incl. masks, distancing & other health & safety measures.
Congress of Russian Americans has been sponsoring commemorative events in honor of the 100 years, which includes producing a 4-part series film featuring interviews of descendants of this evacuation (USA only, as it has become overwhelming).
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CRA is also proud to announce the publishing of a new book by one of our Russian American community and CRA members – Tatiana Amochaev. Writing under the pseudonym of Tania Romanov (her grandmother’s maiden name), she is a prolific author (many other books under her belt) and a descendant of the Amochaev family that evacuated on the last ship from the Crimean Peninsula port of Yevpatoria. Her gripping story captures not just the evacuation from the Crimea, but further obstacles that her family had to overcome before coming to the United States. The book has just come out in print and can either be purchased through Amazon or better-yet, send your check $30.00 which will cover cost of the book, tax and S&H charges to CRA (per above address, memo: Crimean book). The book will be mailed to you and the donation will go directly to CRA, per the author’s generous contribution. CRA is a non-profit organization, so any donations that you make are tax-deductible.
CRA protests ethnic profiling
In Memoriam.
Avisov Georgii Borisovich, (1927-2020) former CRA President.
He was a CRA member since 1976. During his tenure with the CRA, he served as a local representative, Chapter president, National vice-president, and finally the President of the organization. He initiated several major CRA programs, attracted new energetic and reliable program managers, conducted a successful PR campaign, and recognized a number of individuals who substantially contributed to the promotion of Russian culture in America or generously supported CRA projects in USA or Russia. Mr. Avisov was a chairman of the Russian Life Corporation and the editor of the news paper. The Washington DC office was launched as a result of his initiative. In November of 1995 , he testified at the Duma subcommittee hearings and in October 2001 delivered a presentation at Moscow University on the subject of Russian National education. Mr. Avisov was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and had two P.E. licenses and received numerous awards from the US Department of the Navy for his professional accomplishments. In 19982 he was listed in ” Who is Who in California” . Memory Eternal!
Please sign the petition to save the statue of Alexander Baranov in Sitka, Alaska.
We urge you to sign the petition against removing the statue of Alexander Baranov, founder of Novo-Arhangelsk (now the city of Sitka) and the first Russian governor of Alaska. Link to petition:
Here the letter that was sent to Mayor Paxton and Assembly members of the City and Borough of Sitka regarding removal of the Baranov statue:
Congratulations on Russia Day
Russia Day is a holiday of national unity celebrated on June 12. On this day in 1990, Russian Parliament proclaimed it’s sovereignty and the first President of Russia (Boris Yeltsin) was elected on June 12, 1990.
The holiday was officially established in 1994 and initially named “Day of the adoption of the declaration of sovereignty of the Russian Federation”. On February 1, 2002, it was officially renamed “Russia Day”.
75th Anniversary of the End of WWII. Russian-Americans in the United States Armed Forces during WWII.
The main logo: DOD, DVIDS and Graphics by Lynn Kaczenski.
75th Anniversary of the “Meeting on the Elbe” .
It is the joint statement issued yesterday by US President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, on the 75’th Anniversary of the “Meeting on the Elbe” (the Elbe River in Germany) on April 25, 1945, as our two armies were closing in on Victory over Hitler and his Nazism in the Second World War (“Great Patriotic War” in Russia): https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/joint-statement-president-donald-j-trump-president-vladimir-putin-russia-commemorating-75th-anniversary-meeting-elbe/