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Title: V. V. Fedulenko papers
Date (inclusive): 1951-1975
Collection Number: 2001C59
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, and miscellany, relating to Russian participation in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and Russian
émigré affairs.
Creator:
Fedulenko, V. V. (Valentin V.)
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Acquired.
[Identification of item], V. V. Fedulenko Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1894 February 22 | Born, Kazan', Russia |
| 1970 | Author, Zarozhdenie i rastsvet teatra v Kazani |
| 1974 November | Died, San Francisco, California |
V. V. Fedulenko was born in Kazan' on 22 February 1894. He graduated from the Alekseevskoe voennoe uchilishche in December
1914, was commissioned as an officer and sent to the front. Demobilized in January 1918, he returned to Kazan', where he joined
the White Army in September of that year. He remained in its ranks until his evacuation from Vladivostok in October of 1922
with the flotilla of Admiral Iu. K. Stark.
His life and activities in Shanghai through the end of the Second World War were recorded in an oral history entitled Russian
Émigré Life in Shanghai, by the University of California Berkeley Regional Oral History Office as part of its Russian émigrés
project. At the conclusion of that war, Fedulenko was the deputy head of the Russian Emigrants Association of Shanghai, and
assisted in the evacuation of thousands of Russians to Tubabao camp in the Philippines. Arriving in San Francisco in July
1950, he took an active role in helping the Russian refugees leave Tubabao for the United States and Australia.
In 1970, he published a history of the theater in Kazan' entitled Zarozhdenie i rastsvet teatra v Kazani. Fedulenko died in
San Francisco in November 1974.
Valentin Vasil'evich Fedulenko was a Russian army colonel who participated in the First World War and Russian Civil War in
Siberia. The collection includes an oral history interview and writings of a historical and biographical nature.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Russians -- China
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Officers
Russia. Armii͡a