A tale of love and lighting on Divisadero Street
How deeply did Yury Budovlya fall for Liya Klets, an 18-year-old Siberian beauty? When she traveled to his Ukrainian village, Korosten, from her native Siberian town of Novosibirsk for her uncle’s funeral in 1977, how soon did he know she was the one? Instantly. A metalworker, he’d been hired to fabricate the railing around her ...