Vladimir Natanovich Gelfand | |
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 Vladimir Gelfand, Germany, 1945 | |
| Born | March 1, 1923 Novoarkhanhelsk, Elizavetgrad district of the Kherson province of the Russian Empire |
| Died | November 25, 1983 (aged 60) Dnepropetrovsk in the Dnieper, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Occupation | Memoirist |
| Genre | Memoirs |
| Subject | Realism |
| Notable awards | Order of the Red Star,
Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", Medal "For the capture of Berlin", Medal "Twenty years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", Medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" |
Vladimir Gelfand (Russian: Влади́мир Ната́нович Ге́льфанд) (March 1, 1923, in the village of Novoarkhanhelsk, Kirovohrad Oblast – November 25, 1983, in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) was a diarist and Soviet soldier in World War II.
He is known as the author of the diaries from the years 1941–1946 which were published in Germany, Sweden and Russia. The book with the diaries-notices of the officer in the Red Army Vladimir Gelfand: German Diary 1945–1946 (Deutschland-Tagebuch 1945–1946) – Notations of a Soldier in the Red Army has become the first one which is published in Germany.