• What if WII veterans from the Fox Cities and Kurgan wrote letters or essays about their wartime experiences?
• What if they exchanged those letters or jointly published those essays?
• What would we learn from yesterday about living today?

Veterans from here would write:

• Recollections of their war experience
• Observations about the geography where they fought
• Information about their training for war
• Summaries of occupation and interests since the war
• Biographical information (name, age, hometown)

Alexander Inozemtsev,
President, Kurgan, Russia Rotary Club

Boris Aleksandrovich Bogachev - A platoonleader commander of a machine-gun platoon
Dmitriy Bermantov - A scout
Grigory Mikhailovich Fomin
Peter Alekseevich Kurapov - Lieutenant-colonel of Elite Guards (retired)
Ivan Nichkov - Anitircraft Gun Commnader
Nadezhda Sorokina - Line Radio operator

Part One

Part Two

Several Appleton Rotary Club Veterans
Kurgan Veterans
Boris Aleksandrovich Bogachev
Dmitriy Bermantov
Grigory Mikhailovich Fomin

Project organization Coorespondence
Letter from Tim Hanna, Mayor of Appleton to Mayor Anatoli Yelchaninov of Kurgan
Letter to the Editor from Estella Lauter about Dialogue of Victors Event celebrating Publication of a Russian Book of the Letters (Spring 2006)
Local Vets Share Memories with Russian Brothers - Post Crescent article from May 28, 2005
Woman Shares Tales of Promise and Fulfillment - Post Crescent article from Sept 9, 2005
Veterans' Letter Exchange is Unique Look at History - Post Crescent commentary from May 28, 2005

Kurgan on the map