Russian Jack

Russian Jack

Ivan Fredericks (1864 - 1904), known as "Russian Jack", was a goldminer of the Western Australian gold rush in the 1880s. In 1885, while working in the Halls Creek goldmines, he pushed his sick friend in a wheelbarrow 300 km through the Great Sandy Desert to Wyndham, the nearest town with a medical centre. A statue was erected to him in Halls Creek. He is buried in Fremantle Cemetery.

Read the article (author Vladimir Kroupnik) about Russian Jack in Russian on Sydney festival of Russian literature "Antipodes" or listen audio (Tina Vassiliev presented)on SBS Radio website (Russian page).


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