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Dziga Vertov

1896 to 1954 4 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Dziga Vertov across 3 places, from 1915 to 1954. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Denis Arkadyevich Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; – 12 February 1954), better known as Dziga Vertov, was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Dziga Vertov was documented, and when

1915year
Białystokattested “Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German Army to Moscow in 1915.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov
1915year
Moscowattested “Vertov studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from the invading German Army to Moscow in 1915.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov
May 1927month
Ukraineattested “In May 1927 Vertov moved to Ukraine, and the Cine-Eye movement broke up.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov
1954year
Moscowattested “Dziga Vertov died of cancer in Moscow in 1954.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov

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Places Dziga Vertov is documented in

Moscow2 presences · 1915 to 1954Ukraine1 presence · 1927
Białystok1 presence · 1915

Other places tied to Dziga Vertov in the record

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1916 to 1917period
Saint Petersburgmentioned “In 1916–1917 Vertov was studying medicine at the Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg and experimenting with "sound collages" in his free time.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov
June 1918month
Russiamentioned “After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia), which first came out in June 1918.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov
1931year
Sovietmentioned “Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1931), an examination into Soviet miners, has been called a 'sound film', with sound recorded on location, and these mechanical sounds woven together, producing a symphony-like effect.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov
January 1934month
Soviet Unionmentioned “The film, finished in January 1934 for Lenin's obit, was only publicly released in the Soviet Union in November of that year.” source: Wikipedia: Dziga Vertov

Documented at the same place, the same year

Jean-Paul SartreSoviet Union · 1954Zhou EnlaiSoviet Union · 1954Marc ChagallMoscow · 1915Sergei RachmaninoffMoscow · 1915Alexander AlekhineMoscow · 1915Sergei YeseninMoscow · 1915El LissitzkyMoscow · 1915

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