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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 272060
Title: Alexander Kazantsev
Date: 9/14/1938-2/15/2026
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Inscription/Marks: 9/14/1938
Summary: Alexander Kazantsev, 87, of Tioga, ND, passed away February 15, 2026, at Tioga Long Term Care. His funeral was held February 20, 2026, at Zion Lutheran Church in Tioga. Burial was in United Cemetery, Tioga. Alexander Kazantsev was born in the village of Pokrovskoye near the city of Nizhniy Taghil, Russia, in 1938. His father Myron was a shoemaker and a saddler. His mother Evdokia was a homemaker raising 5 children. Alexander (Sasha for short) had two brothers and two sisters. He was the 2nd child in the family. In his early age, he worked as a shepherd on a collective farm taking care of cows and horses. He loved riding horses and taking care of them. At the age of 18 he was conscripted for military service for three years. Sasha liked his military years in Moscow where he had a chance to see many well-known people: presidents, kings and politicians. He was in great physical shape and always enjoyed physical work. He also enjoyed watching soccer and hockey. In 1965 he got married and moved to his wife Liudmila in the city of Sverdlovsk. There he found a job as a metal mechanic where he has achieved the highest qualification in his profession. Sasha was a good family man, he had two daughters, Yulia and Vera. He liked shopping, spending time with his daughters in the summer shack, and picking berries and mushrooms in the forest. His wife Liudmila and he were inseparable - they did everything together. Sasha's father taught how to fix shoes, so he used to repair shoes for all his family and he enjoyed doing it. Sasha was a very hard-working, quiet, reserved and laconic man. He had been respected and valued at work as an excellent specialist. In 2012 Sasha and his wife emigrated to their younger daughter Vera to the USA. He enjoyed his living here; he studied English and was granted US citizenship. He liked spending time with his grandkids, building icy castles and slides for them, and decorating the house for Christmas with lights. He was also busy with gardening, cleaning snow and enjoying his time outdoors. In 2024 his beloved wife Liudmila died and he missed her a lot.
Red ID: FND_I_79555 Image ID: 554917 Image Notes: FND001 272060

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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