Soviet Sputnik engineer dies at age 99

From: thomas@flyingkettle.com
Date: Tue Dec 27 2011 - 20:58:09 UTC

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    On 25 Dec 2011 at 13:08, George Olshevsky wrote:
    
    > Boris Chertok was born in Lodz, now Poland,
    > then Russia, my dad's birthplace
    
    Lodz is now Ukraine. I think then it was in Poland.
    
    Thomas Goodey
    
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