Journey

This segment of the documentary is now complete.  You can read about it in the blog posts (scroll down to August 2010), and see some of the pictures.

Cherkassy, Ukraine

• A city on the Dnieper River where grandma lived and met my grandfather. The city where I was born.

Kiev, Ukraine

• My grandfather’s city of birth and service to the Red Army

Moscow, Russia

• My grandmother had a two-day layover in Moscow, where she stayed with relatives

Krasnoyarsk, Siberia

• Transfer point from the railroad to the boat that took my grandmother up the Yenisei river

Pristan Strelka

• 350km up the Yenisei River, this is the transfer point to the Angara River

Motygino, Krasnoyarsky Region, Siberia

• The small port town closest to Rozdolinsk

Rozdolinsk, Krasnoyarsky Region, Siberia

• The final destination, where my grandmother, grandfather, and father lived until Stalin’s death.