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A tale of love and lighting on Divisadero Street

May 21, 2025 0 Comments

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 ...

A life of resilience: Escaping Soviet antisemitism, Tatyana Yasnovsky built a life in San Francisco as she practiced psychiatry  

March 19, 2025 Life in the Later Lane 0 Comments

For Tatyana Yasnovsky, a retired psychiatrist and émigré from the former Soviet Union, her arrival in America in the mid-‘70s was fraught and unforgettable. “I had two little kids on my hands and we were very anxious about the prospect of living in America,” she said. Prompted to leave Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to escape ...

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