Dudareva, Galina Vasil'evna
Born in Azov, in 1936. When her parents were arrested in 1937, she was left with her nanny, Tat'iana Mikhailovna Palamarchuk, but a few days later, she and her sister ended up in the Children's Detention Centre in Rostov-on-Don, from which they were eventually picked up by their grandmother, S. A. Barchan. They went to live with her in El'nia in Smolensk Oblast. During the war, Galina was evacuated to Riazan. In 1944, she was able to return to El'nia, and, in 1956, graduated from the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute, after which she went to teach at a village school. She married in 1958 but was divorced in the same year. In 1959, she was transferred to a post at a secondary school in El'nia. She gained a degree at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute in 1964 and continued to work in various schools. In 1970, she was appointed Senior Inspector of the Children's Room affiliated to the Petrozavodsk Militia Ward [homeless children found by the militia were housed in these Rooms until their personal circumstances could be ascertained and a decision taken as to where they should be sent next]. Four years later, she transferred to Leningrad , continuing to work at Children's Rooms until her retirement as a pensioner in 1994 with the rank of Major.

Father: Dudarev, Vasilii Dmitrievich (1898-1938). Born in the village of Kholmovaia in the Znamensk district of Kaluga Province, he joined the Communist Party in 1918. He qualified as a rural primary teacher in Petrograd in 1917, after which he was sent to Smolensk Oblast, to implement the Soviet government's educational reforms, being appointed Chairman of the Educational Workers' Union in Iukhnov. A succession of posts followed, including Chairman of the District Executive Committee in El'nia and Iartsevo, Manager of the Smolensk 'Promtorg' Trust, and Deputy Chairman of the Orel Okrug Executive Committee. In 1930, he went to Leningrad and enrolled at the Planning Institute, from which he was transferred, at the end of the second year, to the Institute of Red Professors. In 1933, the Leningrad Oblast Committee sent him to head the Political Department at the Azov Motor Tractor Station. He was elected Second Secretary of the Azov District Committee of the Communist Party, subsequently rising to First Secretary. On 30 August 1937, he was arrested in Azov, charged with 'involvement in an anti-Soviet organisation and wrecking activities' under Article 58-7-8-11, and sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He was shot in Rostov-on-Don the same day.

Mother: Dudareva, Irina Nikolaevna (1904-1974). Born in Orenburg, she joined the Communist Party in 1932 after having graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Orel and having moved to Leningrad with her husband in 1930. In Leningrad she was initially employed as a school teacher until, in 1932, she was elected a bureau member of the Komsomol City District Committee and appointed Head of the Personnel and Education Department of the Party's District Committee. She simultaneously studied during evening classes at Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. In 1933, she moved to Azov with her husband and became Head of the Personnel Department at the Azov Stocking Factory. She was arrested on 22 July 1938, accused of 'failing to denounce her husband for wrecking activities.' She was incarcerated in Rostov prison but released a few months later, on 5 December, by a resolution of the Rostov Oblast NKVD. She then went to El'nia to be reunited with her children, and stayed there, living with her mother and working as a primary school teacher. During the war, she was evacuated to Riazan where she worked as a teacher. In 1969, she moved to Leningrad to live with her daughters.

Sister: Dudareva, Svetlana Vasil'evna. Born in Azov in 1933. Together with her sister, she ended up in the Children's Detention Centre in Rostov-on-Don after her parents' arrest in 1938. She graduated from Leningrad Pedagogical Institute in 1955 and taught at various schools and vocational training colleges in Leningrad. Married to G. E. Ben , with whom she had a daughter, Larisa (born in 1959).