Aleksey Semyonovich Smirnov.jpg

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Description	Twice Hero of the Soviet Union flying ace Aleksey Semyonovich Smirnov
Author or copyright owner	Unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Creation date: circa 1945 Immediate source: http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?photo_id=10529
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Aleksey Smirnov (pilot)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	No photo-portraits are known to be under free licenses yet. No Russian photos from after 1945 can possibly be public domain in the United States, and photos from earlier can only be PD if published anonymously by 31 December 1945 and the author remained unknown for at least 70 years, hence finding a PD photo is often impossible, especially given the disorganized nature of Russian archives and the prevalence of poor documentation of works in them.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Image size reduced, just for identification 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 1987. Potentially public domain, but pre-1946 publication needs to be found.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Aleksey Smirnov (pilot)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aleksey_Semyonovich_Smirnov.jpgtrue

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to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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