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Ex-pilot who downed S. Korean plane

MYKOP, Russia - Gennady Osipovich, a former lieutenant colonel, is pictured during an interview at his home in Mykop, the capital of southern Russia's Republic of Adygea, in November 2013. Osipovich is the former Soviet fighter pilot who shot down a South Korean jumbo jet -- a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 -- in 1983, killing 269 people on board.

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Ex-pilot who downed S. Korean plane

MYKOP, Russia - Gennady Osipovich, a former lieutenant colonel, and his wife Lyudmila are pictured in the garden of their home in Mykop, the capital of southern Russia's Republic of Adygea, in November 2013. Osipovich is the former Soviet fighter pilot who shot down a South Korean jumbo jet -- a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 -- in 1983, killing 269 people on board.

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Admiral Makarov at Constantinople

Stepan Osipovich Makarov (1848-1904) Russian admiral in command of the Pacific fleet at beginning of Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Killed when his flagship 'Petropavlosk' struck a mine and sank in third month of the war. Pictured here at Constantinople on the Bosphorus in a rowing boat flying the flag of the Imperial Russian Navy. Date: circa 1903