Oscar II-class submarine Kursk.
The Kursk was once called The King of the Sea by crew members.
Kursk Relatives Relief (USA) Fund™® (KRRAF), a 501(c)(3) public charity is a donor-advised fund.
Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. 100% of funds donated will go towards
the relief of the Children, Mothers, Daughters, and relatives of the Kursk. Staff time is being donated.
Please Contribute:
Make 501(c)(3) qualified tax deductible donations payable to
"Kursk Relatives Relief (USA) Fund™®- (KRRAF) for Russia"
211 Hope Street, POB 1416, Mountain View, CA. 94042-1416
For information about company stock donations, please call 650-855-8206.
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Oscar II-class submarine Kursk. |
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| "Donations do not go through a third party charitable organization in which less than 5% actually goes to the victims. I will personally insure that all monies will go directly to the families and all accounting will be notarized and placed on this web site. Please reach out to help the children and families of the men lost in this tragedy." Richard T. Kusiolek" For information on payment (donation) options, please |
Relatives of a sailor who died aboard the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk cry on a ship in the Barents Sea, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2000. The Kursk was shattered by a huge explosion and sank on Aug. 12 with 118 officers and sailors aboard, and remains trapped on the sea floor. Photo by Maxim Marmur. (AP)
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KURSK RELATIVES RELIEF (USA) FUND™® All funds will be put into a trust fund at the California Bank & Trust of Mountain View, California. Bank Hours are Monday to Friday 10AM to 5PM PST. "The Kursk Relatives Relief (USA) Fund™® is a Non-Profit Corporation chartered under the State of California. Donations are tax deductible. Call, snail mail, or e-mail us for the IRS file number." |
| Professor Richard T. Kusiolek,
originator of this fund, is an advisor, private business owner, visionary technologist, B2B consultant, educator, and Silicon Valley Entreprenuer for the past 20 years. He is active in mCommerce technologies http://mcomm2.tripod.com and http://www.transglobalnet.com |
"People give money all the
time, and I commend them for it. But you have to go a long way to find a
gift that made as much difference as this ..." |
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| The following world class organizations and individuals have been approached for their advisory input on this humanitarian effort: | ||
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Mayor
Ron Gonzales-San Jose Senator Dianne Feinstein Representative Anna Eshoo Mayor Willie Brown-San Francisco Mayor Jerry Brown-Oakland Bill Jones-CA Secretary of State Katherine Harris-FL Sec'y of State Senator Barbara Boxer Jeb Bush-Governor-Florida Prof. Tom Campbell-Stanford Univ. Larry Ellison-Founder Oracle Jessica Fulmer-Founder SBI Charles Reed-Chancellor CS Univ. Tony Ridder Regis McKenna G. Duffy-Churchill Club California Trade/Commerce Agency Indo-American Community 3COM  AT&T ACER Amazon.com Applied Materials Arabian Oil Company Bill and Melina Gates Foundation British Petroleum Carnegie Corporation of New York C. Schwab Foundation Chevron Church of Latter Day Saints Cingular Cisco Compaq Computer Associates Ernst & Young Exxon Halliburton HewlettPackard IBM Intel J & EFK Foundation
JAFCO Jessie Singh Kleiner Perkins Cauffield & Byers
Lockheed Martin Loral Lucent MCI WorldCom Microsoft Corporation Motorola Nortel Networks Oracle Owens-Corning Pricewaterhouse Coopers Qwest Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Russian-American Chamber SBC Shell Oil Sprint Sun Microsystems Sutter Hill Ventures Texaco Verizon Walden Ventures Yahoo.com |
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Kamiliya, mother of Lt. Alexander Brazhkin, officer of
the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk, cries during the funeral of her son in
St. Petersburg, Friday, Nov. 10, 2000. Brazhkin's body was one of the
bodies retrieved by divers from the submarine. (AP Photo /Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Relatives of sailors of the nuclear submarine Kursk toss flowers from a ship in the Barents Sea on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2000, in tribute to the men killed when the Kursk crumpled in an explosion and sank to the silt below. Photo by Maxim Marmur. (AP) | |
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Click here
for Recent News Reports regarding the Kursk. Updated 7/27/01 |
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For history and information about the town of Kursk in
Russia, click on shield to visit sergys.narod.ru. |
Please also click on the image below to visit another site
containing information regarding the Kursk, her crew and the relief efforts
on the behalf of the families left behind.
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 A memorial service was held on 10/29/00. Click here to read account. |
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| Above photo by Maxim Marmur. (AP) |
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