Nikolai Tschursin, 86, a Russian native who did translation work for the Library of Congress until retiring in 1989, died Jan. 31 at his home in Bradenton, Fla. He had congestive heart failure.
The death was confirmed by his daughter Anna Tschursin.
Mr. Tschursin translated military documents from Russian into English at the Library of Congress, which he joined in the mid-1970s. Earlier, he was an engineer at the Army Department’s Harry Diamond Laboratories.
Nikolai Tschursin was born in Rostov, Russia. He settled in the United States after World War II and became a U.S. citizen in 1952. He was a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and a 1966 engineering graduate of George Washington University.
He moved to Florida from Vienna in 1998. He was a past member of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the District.
His first marriage, to Diana Taylor, ended in divorce. Their daughter, Elizabeth Tschursin, died in 1994.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Galina Losinski-Kovanko of Bradenton; a son from his first marriage, Alexander Tschursin of Santa Fe, N.M.; two daughters from his second marriage, Anna Tschursin of Stafford, Va., and Ludmila Tschursin of Folsom, Calif.; and five grandchildren.
— Adam Bernstein
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