на памяти

• НА ПАМЯТИ чьей, кого{{}}

[PrepP; Invar; the resulting PrepP is adv or subj-compl with быть (subj: usu. abstr, human, or collect)]

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⇒ during s.o.'s lifetime, so that he himself has been a witness to sth. and remembers what happened at the time:

- на Х-овой памяти{{}}≈ in (within) X's memory (recollection);

- X can recall (remember);

- [in limited contexts] in (within) living memory.

     ♦ Я думаю о своем роде, о его и своей судьбе... У нас было пять ветвей, все мужские. Четыре из них прекратились при моей жизни, на моей памяти (Федин 1). I think of my family, of its fate and my own... We had five branches, all male. Four of them came to an end during my lifetime, within my memory (1a)

     ♦ Саша никогда не думал, что в Советском Союзе есть ещё меньшевики и эсеры. Троцкисты - это уже на его памяти. Но эти? (Рыбаков 2). Sasha had never realized that there were still any Mensheviks or Socialist Revolutionaries left in the Soviet Union. Trotskyites he could remember. But the others? (2a).