Russian Children in Transcarpathian Rus

4th Ukrainian Front. Ukrainian SSR, Transcarpathian region, Mukachevo district, Chervenyovo village, end of October, 1944. Soviet officers are walking along the broken village street: Colonel of the Medical Service [Mikhail Vladimirovich Chopor], Major of the Medical Service [Mliparnik], Inspector of the Organizational Department of the Political Directorate of the Southern Front, Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Denisovich Gerasev. Children of all ages, whom the Nazis drove away from the central regions of Russia and abandoned during the advance of the Soviet army, run barefoot towards the officers. A truck surrounded by children. Lieutenant Colonel V.D. Gerasev, standing in the back of a truck, shows the children a portrait of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; distributes chocolate bars and grapes to children. Long queue for children waiting for the presents. Among the children is the Korean Volodya Marsin, the son of one of the leaders of the Korean section of the Comintern, She Sun Min. Distribution of food to people. Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service of the 4th Ukrainian Front Elena Ivanovna Parovaya conducts a medical examination of children, including Kolya Stefantsov from the Oryol Region and Lyuda Kuvshinnikova. A woman in a white coat, Olga Nikolaevna Kibardina, is holding in her arms a little boy - Ivan Krikunov, whose parents were killed. Children among Soviet officers; sing and dance. Major [Mliparnik] is holding a girl Tamara Varennikova, Colonel Chopor is a four-year-old boy Alik Bertelis. A woman, a local teacher, says goodbye to Lyuda Kuvshinnikova before sending the children home. Transcarpathian region, Mukachevo district, Domboki village. White-stone temple of the Dombok Dormition nunnery. Priest, founder and confessor of the monastery Ioann Karbovanets with the nuns, who provided great assistance in settling Russian children into families, near the monastery.

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