Russia’s Oldest Radio Amateur Oleg S. Klyucharev, U1AU, SK

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Russia’s oldest Amateur Radio operator, Oleg S. Klyucharev, U1AU, of St. Petersburg, died on January 31. He was 102. His death comes just days after the death of the oldest US radio amateur, Charlie Hellman, W2RP.

Klyucharev was licensed as EU3GM in 1933, and as U1AU the following year. Born in Strelna in 1915 in czarist Russia. He graduated in 1937 from the Maritime College and spent some time ...

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