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Photos
Juri leaves his favourite steak restaurant in Paris
At this site was previously the flat of Juri and his parents: Bouelvard de Exelmans (with Manfred Wiesner)
In Juri’s Pariser Gymnasium: Lycee Janson de Sailly in rue de la Pompe (mit Natalia Kuznyetsova)
Le Louvre
Juri’s Parisian notebook
In a Parisian bistro
Juri Elperin with filmmaker Manfred Wiesner at Montmatre
Over the roofs of Paris
In the famous café of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Juri Elperin in younger years
Juri and his wife Kira
2014: Juri gets awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Republic of Germany by the German president
2015: Juri Elperin, his grandson and German president Joachim Gauck
1973: Juri Elperin gets awarded the National Medal of the German Democratic Republic
Order of the Red Star - for exceptional service in the cause of the defence of the Soviet Union.Order of the Patriotic War (1st Class) - for heroic deeds during the Great Patriotic War
Juri's identity card during his time in the Red Army
2015: At the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, all veterans of the Red Army received a medal from the Russian government