Yuhanya

Yuhanya was evacuated from besieged Leningrad in the fall of 1942, when he was 3 years old. Without documents or identification marks, he was assigned to an orphanage in the village of Pischalie in Kirov Oblast. Later he changed several more official homes: a factory school, an army barracks, and factory dormitories.

Yuhanya became Pavel Vasilievich Petrov, found a family, a home, and lived a happy life, but never learned anything about his past: whether he was Russian or Finnish, who his parents were, and whether it was his name, which the children in the train car called him — “Yuhanya”.