A selection of photographs of victims of Stalin's repressions, information about whom is being sought by descendants: Evgenia Shaban, in early 1940, her family was dispossessed and taken from Belarus to the Tyumen region; in addition to her daughter, the family had two more sons - Ivan and Alexander.
Prokop Zapolsky, escaping dispossession, left the Vitebsk region for Crimea in the mid-1930s, his wife was left alone with three children and corresponded with her husband until the authorities found out about it; she herself asked him to be more careful and not to send any more news.
Anton Ivashko, his relatives do not have a photo, lived in Belarus, on a farm near the village of Pirinovo, after dispossession in the 1930s he left for Canada; a photo of his brother with his family has been preserved.
Fyodor Ringovsky, in the mid-1930s the family was dispossessed and sent from the Gomel region somewhere to the north of Russia, all the letters burned during the war, only one photograph survived, which is kept by his great-grandson.
Maria Vasilievna Belyavskaya (Filippovich), born in 1925, a native of the village of Yevlichi, Slutsk region of Belarus, after the dispossession of the family she was raised in an orphanage, fought on the 1st Belorussian Front, ended the war in Berlin.
Uncle Alexander (last name not given) is wanted by his nephews, in 1931 after dispossession the family was sent to the Karaganda region, only Alexander and his sisters Anna and Anastasia survived, before the war the girls found each other, nothing is known about the fate of Alexander to this day.
Vaclav Maksalen was born in Poland, the family lived in Western Belarus, in 1944 they were dispossessed, Vaclav was arrested and exiled to Magadan.
Priest Alexei Mikhailovich Benediktov served in the Kirov region, in the 1920s he was arrested, after which his two daughters moved to the Leningrad region, contact with them was lost.
Grigory Lozovik miraculously avoided arrest when in 1930 his family was dispossessed and exiled from Belarus to the Perm region.
He went to the Pskov region, got married there, had a daughter, but in 1932 he was arrested anyway.
After his release, he was unable to return to his family, since they lived in the border zone, where he was not allowed, he never saw them again.
In 1944, he went missing at the front.
In the studio is Anatoly Grigorievich, Grigory's son from his second marriage, looking for his older sister.
Video letter from St.
Petersburg: Valentina Grigorievna recalls the war years and what she knows about her father from her mother.
Anatoly meets Valentina and her granddaughter in the studio.
German Valerievich Titov is looking for his father and grandmother: Valery Ivanovich Bateyev (born in 1958) and Naina Georgievna Garkalenko (born in 1935), the parents met in Bishkek, separated after moving to Russia.
Alexey Vitalyevich Ulyanenko is looking for his brother: Arkady Vitalyevich Ulyanenko, born in 1961, last saw each other in Irkutsk in 1991. Patimat Nurmagomedova is looking for her son: Gasan Gadzhimansurovich Nurmagomedov, born in 1978, was drafted into the army in May 2002, served for six months in Yekaterinburg and disappeared; Artur Majidov spoke.
Dmitry Borisovich Batishchev is looking for her son: Dmitry Dmitrievich Batishchev, born in 1980, disappeared on January 22, 2005 in Voronezh on his way home from college.
Evgeniya Igorevna Tomchik is looking for her father: Zurab Nikolaevich Noniashvili, the family lived in Georgia, the city of Rustavi, Rustaveli Street, Building 1, with grandmother Venera Rubenovna and grandfather Niko; they separated after their parents divorced, when the mother moved to Russia with her 6-year-old daughter.
A selection of video letters that require the help of viewers.
The village of Batoshevo, nun Taisiya of the Batoshevsky Monastery is looking for her son: Borislav Dimitrov Borisov, born in 1961, left for Russia after marrying a woman from Stary Oskol.
Elena Ivanovna Khaspova from Sevastopol, 85, is looking for a Polish family: Maria Pekarskaya and her sons Karl and Stasik helped Elena and her mother survive during the construction of the White Sea Canal in the 1930s.
The village of Peleniya, Evenia Babalau is looking for her son, who left to work in Moscow, presumably is at a construction site in Bykovo.
The village of Peleniya, Alla Borisovna Bagrim is looking for her daughter and grandson: Tatyana Grigorieva worked in Moscow, her son lived with his grandmother, before 1996 the mother took the child for the New Year holidays, after which they both disappeared.
Mar del Plata, a woman from Bolivia is looking for her brother who lives in Russia, Freddy Waldo Vasquez.
Ulan-Ude, deputy head of the Transbaikal Air Base Grigory Vasilyevich Dantsev is looking for a friend from his youth; the search ended before the program went on air, Osman Ibaev lives in Grozny, works as a forester, helped save the Grozny Arboretum after the war.
Minsk region, the agro-town of Senitsa, the mother is looking for Vera Dreychuk, who went missing in July 2011 near a cornfield.
Kyiv, Vera Leontyevna Bryukhovets is looking for relatives: her parents met in Balakleya, her father worked in a battalion of prisoners of war, her mother was interned from the Baltics, Vera was sent to orphanage #1 in Kharkov at the age of 4 months.
Minsk, mother is looking for her son: Sergey Nikolaevich (she pronounces her last name unclearly), born in 1981, went to Moscow to earn money in July 2006 and disappeared; a man came to the program kiosk at the Kazansky railway station and said that he had seen Sergey in Dagestan, the State Labor Inspectorate of Dagestan promised to check the information.
Arkhangelsk region, Galina Roeva is looking for a sister she has never seen: Nadezhda Ivanovna Serko, born in 1975, presumably lives in Ukraine, has a daughter, Ksenia.
Mikhanovichi settlement, family is looking for a grandfather: Nikolay Evdokimovich Robilko was deported to Germany during WWII. Rome, Alejandro Jose Sokolovsky is looking for his father's cousin: in 1956, Silvio Gustin left Argentina for the USSR and stayed there, his last letter arrived in 1969. The village of Khabupur, Kusumkuar Singh is looking for his son: Upendra Singh, born in 1960, studied philology in Simferopol and Moscow, last came home in 1989. Moscow, Tatyana Semenova is looking for her father, whom she has not seen for 33 years; 10 years after sending the search request, her brother from Gorlovka, Donetsk region, responded, and the family reunion took place at the wedding of the youngest brother in the village of Kostovo, Voronezh region, the father still lives there.
Filming in the village of Ust-Vaenga, Arkhangelsk region: WWII veteran Pavel Aleksandrovich (last name not given) recalls life in captivity.
In Daugavpils, he worked in a private house for several months; the owner, Valdis (Vladimir) Indu, and his daughters, Alma and Skaidra, treated him very well and actually saved him from starvation.
Then Pavel Aleksandrovich was taken by the Germans again; he spent the rest of the war in camps until the prisoners were liberated by American troops.
Despite the years that have passed, Pavel Aleksandrovich still remembers this family with gratitude and wants to know what happened to them later.
His son, Aleksandr Pavlovich, came to film the program.
A video letter from Latvia, the city of Jekabpils: Vladimir's daughter and granddaughter convey their best wishes to Pavel Aleksandrovich's family and thank them for the memories of their father and grandfather.
Studio.
Tatyana Viktorovna Kleymenova is looking for a former colleague: Yuri Vladimirovich Dedov, born in 1975, lived in Krasnodar Krai, Besskorbnaya village, Sadovaya street, house 5 or 50, served in military unit 63558 in Moscow.
Marina Falkovich is looking for her father: Miniar Karimov lived in Ufa, they last saw each other 20 years ago.
Lyudmila Petrovna Russo from Moldova is looking for her son: Oleg Fedorovich Savchuk, born in 1972, went to work in Russia in 2009, last called home in August 2010 from Kolomna; a family friend spoke.
Lyudmila Osipovna Frolova is looking for relatives on her father's side: Yuzef Oleshinsky, born in 1916, met Lyudmila's mother in Germany, where they were both deported to work, in 1944 her father fell ill and was sent to a hospital on the border with Poland, they never saw each other again.
Search by photos.
Lyubov Viktorovna Kuznetsova went missing in 2006 in Mikhailovsk, Stavropol Krai.
Oraz-Mukhamed Kurbanifesov went to Moscow to work in 2007, but got off the bus in the Rostov region and disappeared.
Natalya Stepanovna Grigorieva from Tyumen is looking for her father and uncle: her father Stepan Gorbatyuk presumably lives in the Chernivtsi region, her uncle Ivan Ivanovich Melnik enlisted in the Chita region in March 1968; she also asks to find all those who worked in the Komsomol youth brigade in Zaporozhye at the ZhBK plant in 1980-1985. Kristina Bondarenko, born in 1994, disappeared in 2006 in the city of Inta, Komi.
Rafail Bekmukhambetov served in the village of Shtykovo, Shkotovsky district, Primorsky Krai, disappeared on December 22, 2000, returning to his unit.
Tamara Leonidovna Zhukova from the city of Lukhovitsy is looking for twin sisters Galina and Olga, with whom she parted in Ust-Kamenogorsk in the mid-1950s.
A man named Amir was found in the courtyards along Gvardeyskaya Street in Nizhny Tagil, he says that in the late 1990s he was shell-shocked, his mother, stepfather and younger brother live in the Tyumen Region; he was traveling from the village of Svetly in the Tyumen Region to Moscow, but he does not remember how he ended up in Nizhny Tagil.
An unknown man, the photo was sent from Irkutsk; according to those with whom he worked at the construction site, his name is Anatoly, he came from Khabarovsk, a concrete slab fell on him at the construction site, perhaps this caused the memory loss.
Polina Kazurova from Kaliningrad is looking for her friend Anastasia, with whom she lost contact when Polina's phone with all her data was stolen.
Mikhail Efimovich Zavyalov, born in 1948, was sent on a business trip from Dushanbe to Naberezhnye Chelny 30 years ago, and their correspondence was interrupted long ago.
Rashid Khodjaev, born in 1954, left Tajikistan for Yelabuga in the second half of the 1990s, where he worked in a cafe.
Nina Vladimirovna Romanova from Moscow is looking for her father and uncle: Vladimir Nikolaevich Yakovlev and Yuri Pavlovich Pashintsev, who presumably live in the Samara Region.
Klavdiya Anatolyevna Tamaraviciute (or Tamaravicius), born in 1950, a Gypsy by nationality, lived in Kaluga, has three sons, one of whom is named Takhir; she is looking for her daughter Radha.
Olga Soboleva, born in 1972, disappeared in 2008 after a fire in Nizhny Novgorod; one of the witnesses claims to have spoken to a similar woman who had severe burns, she only remembered that she had a daughter.
Nikolai Sergeevich Babushkin is looking for his father, whom he has never seen, he only knows his name: Sergei Yuryevich.
Nikolai was born in Petrozavodsk, then he was immediately moved to Kazakhstan, where he was raised by his grandmother, his mother and stepfather lived in Russia.
In the 1990s, the grandmother moved her grandson to them and returned home.
They lived poorly, the family turned out to be alcoholics, as a result, the boy ran away and was a street child for several years, until he came to the conclusion that he needed to somehow change his life, and turned himself in to the police.
As an adult, Nikolai graduated from university, got a job, got married, and is raising a little daughter.
Meeting in the studio with his father and sister Irina.
12.2009
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