We were addressed by the American family requesting to find a birth mother of their adopted daughter Julia (this name was given to the girl by the American family). They adopted Julia in Kirov, Russia several years ago. They only had data from adoption file and were extremely eager to find out as much as possible about the biological parents and relatives of Julia.
At the moment of adoption, Polina, birth mother of the girl, was living on Oktiabrska Avenue in Kirov. This is, probably, one of the longest streets in Kirov. It turned out that Polina still lives at the address that was stated in the adoption documents. That was an old hutted dormitory. However, Polina was not at home when we paid a visit. Then we started asking neighbors in order to find out where Polina was and how we could contact her. The majority of neighbors were intoxicated. Finally we were lucky to meet a young man who told us that Polina was at work and would not come back until morning. After that we started asking for Polina’s phone number. By combined effort we eventually got the necessary phone number. When we contacted Polina and explained why we were looking for her, Polina immediately agreed to meet and informed us how to find her. When we met we told Polina about our searches and the interest of family that adopted her daughter. Polina has curiously read the letter sent from the USA and viewed the photos. She said Julia’s father didn’t want a daughter to be born as he was comfortable with the family life that was not “burdened” with kids. Right after Polina left her daughter in the maternity hospital, they got divorced. The woman could not forgive husband’s indifference. According to Polina, she would not be able to raise a child by herself. Polina was unemployed, while her mother has been drinking heavily and couldn’t help Polina anyway.
Polina is a slim, blue-eyed petite girl of a nice and lovely nature. She seemed a very calm and level-headed person to us. She was genuinely interested and keen to meet us. It was obvious that she cared about her child’s destiny.
We had a rather frank and lovely talk. Polina answered all the questions of the foster family. She also told us about representatives of her and Julia’s biological father families. Polina sent her best regards and gratitude for letter, photos and taking a huge responsibility to become her daughter’s parents. Polina said she would definitely write to the American family as she wanted to know how her daughter was growing up and progressing.
We don’t know what their further communication turned out to be, but we hope it will go on.
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My husband and I adopted two children from Russia. Natalya “Hannah” Balyakina was born in St Petersburg to Nadezhda Balyakina. Her birth certificate stated June 12, 2002 but we believe it is quite possible that she is older. About 6 months after her adoption we were able to locate her birth mother who stated she was very willing to communicate, but was living with a man at the time in a neighboring village. Any further correspondences did not get through. We adopted Natalya from Kalozhitsky Detsky Dom but had first met her in Lomonosov. We adopted her in November 2006. Natalya’s mother stated that her father’s name was Dmitry Bodnar (or Bognar) and that he was going to the University in St Petersburg to study Architecture. We would love any help locating either or both of her parents.
We adopted Anatoly “Brody” Ivanov in August 2007. We were told his birth date is January 3, 1999. He was adopted from the Stavropol region, and I believe the orphanage was in Grigoropolitskaya. He wants no contact with his bio mother whom he states was very abusive, but is hoping to find out if his maternal grandmother is still alive and well, and would also love to know if the man he believes to be his bio father, Aleksander Nikonov, is alive and well. He remembers both as being very loving people to him. We do know that his bio sister was adopted in Russia and we ahve her contact information. We also know his half-brother is still in the US but we have no contact with him due to his aggression and abuse to the younger children. His name is Pavel Ivanov.
Please let me know if you would be able to handle these and what you would expect the cost to be. I am hoping that some time in the next 2 years that the children would be able to return with my husband and I to meet their birth families. They are not yet ready, but are hopeful to start to receive more information and make contact.
Sincerely,
Linda Call
Hello, dear Linda! Thank you for your message.
We can start searching for your children’s birth parents in Russia without any problem.
In order to begin working we need some information from you.
1) Have you got any documents of the adoption?
If so, we need to look through and read them. Please send us birth mothers’ relinquishments documents or court decision about the deprivation of parental rights and your children’s birth certificates to our email.
We need further information about birth parents: their full names, DOB, where they are from, where they lived, if possible. Any detail will be useful in our searching.
2) After having checked the documents we will be able to inform you about our service cost.
For the beginning we would like to offer you to start searching for Hannah’s birth mother and birth father.
As the results of searching you will get the next documents: report, pictures, DVD-video, contact’s data of birth parents.
After that, if you are satisfied with the result of our work, we will start searching of Brody’s grandmother, birth father and relatives in Stavropol region.
We think it would be more correctly.
Sincerely, Andrey