Уж не знаю, тот или не тот, но, судя по сравнению Запорожца и Теслы - тот самый. :)
https://www.akbizmag.com/industry/education/retired-u-s-navy-captain-gary-yuri-tabach-presents-to-the-public/Retired U.S. Navy Captain Gary (Yuri) Tabach Presents to the Public
The Alaska World Affairs Council is pleased to announce retired U.S. Navy Captain Gary (Yuri) Tabach will present to the public on “Checkmate: Predictions on Russia’s Maneuvering & the US Response,” Friday, February 17th, noon at the Dena’ina Center.
Captain Gary (Yuri) Tabach was born in Moscow, USSR and lived there until 1976 when his family immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from Temple University School of Pharmacy in 1985, he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Captain Tabach holds the distinction of being the first Soviet-born citizen to be commissioned an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States. At the end of his esteemed career, Captain Tabach served as Chief of Staff for the NATO Military Liaison Mission in Moscow, Russia. There he acted as the liaison between NATO’s Military Committee and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Captain Tabach will be joined by Russ Howell, the former Director of the American Russian Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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И никакой он не бандеровец, совсем наоборот :) - еврей.
https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/jewish-america-5/Jewish America
By JEWISH STANDARD
December 16, 2011, 10:56 am
PHILADELPHIA ““ Uriah P. Levy, the first Jewish commodore of the U.S. Navy, was one for voyages.
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More than 200 years later, Levy, in the form of a two-meter-high statue weighing more than 1,000 pounds, has arrived back home. The artwork of the man famous for abolishing flogging in the Navy and later purchasing the home of Thomas Jefferson began its journey in a Moscow studio and has landed atop an enormous pedestal outside the same Old City synagogue where Levy once read from the Torah.
The two men responsible for bringing the monument here – both graduates of Philadelphia’s Akiba Hebrew Academy who now live on opposite sides of an ocean – are hoping that its prominent placement across from Independence Mall will prompt generations of children to ask their parents, “Who is that man and what did he do?”
“Great American people need to be permanently remembered by their people,” said Gary “Yuri” Tabach, a recently retired U.S. Navy captain living in Moscow who hoped to be in Philadelphia this week for the statue’s official dedication ceremony.
For financial and logistical help, Tabach recruited his high school classmate Joshua Landes, the son of Beth Sholom Congregation’s emeritus rabbi, Aaron Landes, who is a retired Navy chaplain and rear admiral.
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