Visit of Polish miner N. Muravsky to the USSR

USSR. Altai Krai. Barnaul. A native of the Soviet Siberia collective farm in the Kosikhinsky District of the Altai Krai, Polish citizen Nikolai Muravsky (center), who was lost at the age of five during the Great Patriotic War, during a meeting with relatives, whom he found 34 years later with the help of the Soviet newspaper Pravda. In the first days of the war, Nikolai's father, junior political instructor Nikolai Fyodorovich Vladimirov, who served on the border with Poland, died, his mother, Darya Ivanovna, was shot in front of the boy, and he was adopted, risking his life, by Poles Frantisek and Zuzanna Muravsky, with whom Nikolai survived prison and a concentration camp together. After the war, N. Muravsky graduated from school, became a miner and spent more than thirty years looking for his relatives who remained in the Soviet Union. Viktor Sadchikov/TASS