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  1. Part of the installation in the exhibition A Tale of How a Tagil Boy Vitya Starukhin Became the Japanese Baseball Player Victor Starffin in Nizhny Tagil in 2021. Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installation in the exhibition A Tale of How a Tagil Boy Vitya Starukhin Became the Japanese Baseball Player Victor Starffin in Nizhny Tagil in 2021. Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installation in the exhibition A Tale of How a Tagil Boy Vitya Starukhin Became the Japanese Baseball Player Victor Starffin in Nizhny Tagil in 2021.

    Part of the installation in the exhibition A Tale of How a Tagil Boy Vitya Starukhin Became the Japanese Baseball Player Victor Starffin in Nizhny Tagil in 2021.

    Photograph from the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Photograph from the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Oleg Starukhin, a relative of Victor Starffin, at the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Oleg Starukhin, a relative of Victor Starffin, at the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Photograph from the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Photograph from the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

    Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Part of the installation in the exhibition A Tale of How a Tagil Boy Vitya Starukhin Became the Japanese Baseball Player Victor Starffin in Nizhny Tagil in 2021. Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Part of the installation in the exhibition A Tale of How a Tagil Boy Vitya Starukhin Became the Japanese Baseball Player Victor Starffin in Nizhny Tagil in 2021.

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      Photograph from the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Oleg Starukhin, a relative of Victor Starffin, at the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Photograph from the opening.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

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      Part of the installatin.  Photo: Anna Marchenkova

  2. Starffin Returns to Tagil (2019)

    The project is about a Russia-born Japanese baseball legend of the mid 20th century, who immigrated to Japan due to the Russian revolution. In collaboration of the Ural Industrial Biennale and locals, we built a baseball field in honour of Victor Starffin (or Starukhin), organized a baseball match and opened an exhibition showcasing archive materials and artworks about Starffin to introduce locals to their compatriot, who became one of the most successful and famous Russian immigrants in Japan in the middle of the 20th century, overcoming a number of ordeals throughout his life.