Tag #114298 - Interview #78500 (Alla Yasnogorodskaya)

My father, Lazar Senderovich Futoryan, was born in 1906 in Kiev.  He was a chemist, a graduate of the State Institute of Applied Chemistry in Leningrad.In Kiev he met  my mother, and they were soon married.  My father took part in three military campaigns: he was in the campaign to divide Poland and Hungary [the Soviet invasion of Poland], in the Finnish War, and in World War II, where he advanced from Stalingrad to Berlin. Before the war he worked in a vanilla production workshop.  After the end of World War II Lazar and my mother divorced and Father left for Moscow,where he worked in a chemical enterprise.  He retired at the age of 48.