作为列宁格勒一位普通工人唯一活下来的儿子，他出生在俄罗斯人称之为“伟大的卫国战争”之后(俄罗斯在这场战争里损失了2600万人)。

The only surviving son of a Leningrad factory worker, he was born after what the Russians call the Great Patriotic War, in which they lost more than 26 million people.