A resident of the village of Leshnya in the Gomel region, A.I. Mishura

June 1983. USSR. Byelorussian SSR. Gomel Region. Antonina Ignatyevna Mishura, a resident of the village of Leshnya, Mozyr District, the mother of a combine operator from the Lithuanian SSR, Valentin Makarovich Ivanov, stands next to a photo of her son with his adoptive parents. During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Mishura was taken prisoner by the Nazi invaders as a child, where he was ransomed from a guard at the Alytus railway station by a Lithuanian peasant, Iozas Buryavichus, from the village of Barava. The Buryavichus took the child in, and after the war he received documents in the name of Valentin Makarovich Ivanov and stayed to live with his adoptive parents in Barava. For many years he searched for his real family, and forty years later he was able to find his mother thanks to a TV show that told his story. Igor Zotin/TASS