Zair Azgur

Zair Isaakovich Azgur (January 15, 1908 – February 18, 1995

Azgur is the uncle of Jewish Belarusian partisan Masha Bruskina, publicly hanged by the Nazis in october 1941 in Minsk. Soon after the war, he immediately recognized Masha in the dreadful photographs exposed as he was visiting the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. First claiming her identity, but then he retraced his steps.^[2]

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Honours and awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of the Red Star
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class
• Medal "Veteran of Labour"
• Two Stalin Prizes
• Title of People's Artist of the USSR (visual arts)

References

• John Milner. A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420 - 1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Antique Collectors' Club, 1993
• Overview of the museum

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