The fate of V.M. Ivanov from the Lithuanian SSR

November 1983. USSR. Byelorussian SSR. Gomel Region. Combine harvester from the Lithuanian SSR Valentin Makarovich Ivanov and his mother Antonina Ignatyevna Mishura, from whom he was separated by the war and whom he found forty years later, during a meeting in the village of Leshnya, Mozyr District. 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