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In 1953, when Aksel and Ingvald Bogdanoff were out inspecting their salmon nets in the Lille Ekkeroy area, they encountered a
Fryktet det var isbjørn
Nordlys,19 May 2006
Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff (22 November 1922 – 1 June 1971) was a Norwegian who fought as Soviet-controlled partisan in eastern
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Lille Ekkerøy
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">Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff was one of eleven children born to Signe Victoria Bogdanoff (1892–1963), née Dahl, from Finnmark
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in World War II
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Partisanen und Spione in Nord-Norwegen/ref> and, in 1953, he was one of two
brothers
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who encountered and shot the last polar bear
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seen in Finnmark
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, at Lille Ekkerøy
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Part of the last generation to live on Lille Ekkerøy
Tromsø
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, and Jacob Wilhelm Bogdanoff (1878–1940), whose father came from Russia. The other children included: Alfred; Francis; Olav (1917–2002); Karl (1916-1987); Frits (1915-1981); Ingvar (1920–1995), also known as Ingvald; Daniel (1931-1987); and Agnes (1933-2014). The children, three of whom died at an early age, were the last generation who lived on Lille Ekkerøy
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in Vadsø Municipality
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. They were evacuated during the war, moved to Krampenes
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, but returned and lived there until about 1953, when they moved back to Krampenes. As part of their subsistence tactics, they collected driftwood
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In some waterfront areas, driftwood is a major nuisance. However, the driftwood provides ...
on the beach and picked cloudberries in the fields. Aksel married Anne Lise and, before their divorce, had a son called Arvid Sigfred Bogdanoff.
Partisan service
After training as a radio operator in theSoviet Union
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, Bogdanoff, in April 1944, parachuted alone onto Kvaløya island and set up a radio bearing on the Torskefjord height between large stones. In connection with the Porsa action, he was captured and tortured
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by a German search party on 9 June 1944. He revealed nothing but he is supposed to have made some deal which the Germans honoured, resulting in his survival.
Polar bear
In 1953, when Aksel and Ingvald Bogdanoff were out inspecting their salmon nets in the Lille Ekkeroy area, they encountered a polar bear
The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can Hybrid (biology), interbreed. The polar bear is the largest extant species of bear ...
which is believed to have come on an ice-floe from Svalbard
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. They shot and killed the bear. This is the last time that a polar bear was seen in Finnmark.Robert GreinerFryktet det var isbjørn
Nordlys,19 May 2006
References
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