The Russian Embassy in Prague: the oldest Russian of the Czech Republic, WWII veteran Anatoly Andreev died Andreev, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He was 98 years old, press secretary of the Russian Embassy in the republic Nikolai Bryakin told TASS.
“The oldest veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a direct participant in the battles with the Nazis, Russian citizen Anatoly Andreev, who permanently resided in the Czech Republic, died (…) The Embassy especially notes the significant contribution of the veteran to preserving the memory of the heroism of the Red Army in the fight against Nazism, “the agency quoted Bryakin as saying.
The diplomat said that Andreev took part in the defense of Leningrad from the troops of the Third Reich, and then in the Red Army's offensive against west. He ended the war in Czechoslovakia, and then, many years later, returned to live there.
In September it was reported that the famous Soviet and Russian international journalist, veteran of Izvestia, Leonid Kamynin, had died at the age of 93. He came to work for the publication in 1951, immediately after graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.