RU 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 Mama! September 1969. My first days in Vladivostok, where I had been assigned to work after graduating from the Leningrad Forestry Academy. For the time being, I was staying at the Primorye Hotel, not far from the railway station and the seaport. I had already been told about the passenger liner Soviet Union, the largest in the Far East; that it could be recognized by its unusual funnel and its shortened stern (compared to the bow); and that it might soon arrive from Sakhalin. If only I could see it! One day, on a beautiful morning, I was hurrying from the hotel to work, but glanced toward the seaport. And there, rising behind it, was a curious-looking funnel. Could it be the Soviet Union? I ran toward it. Yes - it was! The giant was coming alongside. The quay was a sea of people. And on the decks of the ship - hundreds of students (they had just returned from Shikotan, where they had been doing their field practice). Joyful greetings rang out from both sides, everyone shouting whatever they could. And suddenly, as if by prior agreement, the students began to chant: - Ma-ma! Ma-ma! Ma-ma!.. The children had come home. (c) Zina Lelyanova from the book "The Green Rainbow" @MashaLelyanova on vk