Yuri Ryabinkin
Yuri Ivanovich Ryabinkin was born on 2 September 1925 in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad). His younger sister Irina was born on 30 April 1933. His mother Antonina Mikhailovna Riabinkina (née Pankina), who was born on 13 August 1903, came from a family belonging to the intelligentsia. She finished education at the gymnasium and knew French, German, and Polish, well. Yuri and his family lived in a apartment, which even had a library. By 1941 (when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union), Antonina worked as a  librarian and was also a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Yuri's father left the family in April 1933, remarried, and lived with his new wife in a Russian village,  near Finland, before being sent to the Gulag, in 1937.