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Guide to the Soviet Soldier's Photograph Album
Bernath Mss 154
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Title: Soviet Soldier's Photograph Album
Dates: ca. 1984-1986
Collection number: Bernath Mss 154
Collection Size:
.2 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Physical location: Del Norte
Languages:
Russian
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Soviet Soldier's Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 154. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2005.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album entitled Памятъ О Службе (Memory of Service) is a visual record of a young Soviet soldier during his time of service
in the 1980s. The soldier, one V. I. Tabushvili, an Ossetian national born in 1965, was a member of the Komsomol (a Soviet
organization for young people aged 14 to 28 that was primarily a political organ for spreading Communist teachings and preparing
future members of the Communist Party) and joined the Soviet Army in May of 1984.
The album contains a record of his service in the 80th Command Regiment while apparently based in the city of Berdichev in
central Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), southwest of Kiev. There are portraits of individual soldiers, photographs
of various locales and groups of soldiers and the daily routines of barracks life. There are also within the album 12 original
cartoon drawings (colored marker on paper, many with captions in Russian) illustrating aspects of Soviet army life as well
as Tabushvili's personal take on other subjects. There are several documents: a proclamation from the Ministry of Defense
(March 1984) which deals with the conscription of all 18 year old males and states that it must be read to all members of
the military services, a certificate of achievement (October 1984), a newspaper clipping (dated March 1986) that contains
the same official proclamation from the Ministry of Defense as listed above (pasted into the album), and a Komsomol certificate
of recommendation (April 1986) signed by the Secretary of the Young Communist Party.
There is no container list for this collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Berdychiv (Ukraine)
Soviet Photograph Album, ca. 1940s-1950s (Bernath Mss 324). Includes images of soldiers from WWII era.