Otakar Mika (centre) as head of the Cheb district office meeting Anton Hardt, a German expelled from the Sudetenland after World War II. First half of the 1990s

Otakar Mika (second from the right) as head of the Cheb district office at the Euroregion Egrensis meeting, first half of the 1990s

Otakar Mika as head of the Cheb district office during the unveiling of the Cheb Liberation Memorial with members of the US Army. Year 1991

Otakar Mika (right of Václav Havel) during the visit of President Václav Havel to Cheb, first half of the 1990s

Otakar Mika (right) at the ODS congress in Cheb with Prime Minister Václav Klaus, second half of the 1990s

Otakar Mika (left) as Mayor of Cheb during a visit to the twin city of Nizhny Tagil in Russia, 1996

Otakar Mika (right) at the Ypsilonka Memorial, which commemorates the liberation of western Bohemia by the US army. In the middle stands the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Jack Matlock, on the right Milan Bayer. The image dates from the second half of the 1980s

Commemorative act at the Ypsilonka Memorial, which commemorates the liberation of western Bohemia by the US Army. In 1980, in the middle, US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Francis Meehan. This image was taken by Otakar Mika

A photograph by Otakar Mika of the US Army Ypsilonka Memorial, which commemorates the liberation of western Bohemia by the US Army. Second half of the 1980s

A photograph by Otakar Mika of the US Army Ypsilonka Memorial, which commemorates the liberation of western Bohemia by the US Army. First half of the 1980s

A photograph by Otakar Mika of the US Army Ypsilonka Memorial, which commemorates the liberation of western Bohemia by the US Army. Second half of the 1980s

A photograph by Otakar Mika of the US Army Ypsilonka Memorial, which commemorates the liberation of western Bohemia by the US Army. First half of the 1980s

Otakar Mika (right) greets members of the U.S. Infantry Division Big Red One as head of the Cheb District Office. Early 1990s

Otakar Mika in the second half of the 1980s as a maintenance worker in Cremona Luby. To the right of him stands his colleague Vlastimil Kohout

Otakar Mika in 2024

Jan Rampich

Jan Rampich 2018

Otakar Mika in 2024

Place in Travná, where Peter Oravec organizes an annual festival - Czech-Polish pojiwo