ZIRAKH

ZIRAKH, Apollony Aleksandrovich (1855, Buzuluk – 20.11.1919, Ufa), Photographer. Since 1872, he served at the state and administrative institutions of the Samara Gub.; since 1893 at the office of the Construction Directorate of West Siberian Railway; since 1896 – at the Ufa Zemstvo Administration of Ufa Gub.; since 1918 – at the Ufa Council of People’s Commissars, Revolutionary Committee. He created a collection of photographs of Ufa and its surroundings (approx. 5 thous. photos), some of which are kept at the National Museum of the RB.