File:Soviet Colonel Grigorii Trofimovich Skiruta.jpg

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Description	Portrait photo of Soviet Colonel Grigory Trofimovich Skiruta, Hero of the Soviet Union. 81st Guards Rifle Division.
Author or copyright owner	Unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Creation date: circa 1945 Immediate source: "The Forgotten Battle of the Kursk Salient", Helion & Co., Ltd., Solihull, UK, 2018, photo page xiii
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Grigory Skiruta
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	No photo-portraits are known to be under free licenses yet.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Resolution reduced, just for educational purposes.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Unknown photographer is probably deceased given the age of the photo, and resolution is low.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since 1999. Potentially public domain, but pre-1946 publication needs to be found.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:21, 25 April 2019		260 × 354 (22 KB)	PlanespotterA320 (talk \| contribs)	resolution reduced per rules for fair-use content
	01:56, 11 June 2018	No thumbnail	832 × 1,167 (389 KB)	Wreck Smurfy (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a public-domain item using File Upload Wizard

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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
File change date and time	22:46, 10 June 2018
Color space	sRGB