watch were called yuri germans, so in august 1934 the boy was named otto otto in honor of otto yuryevich schmidt, the leader of the famous chelyuskintsev epic. so the boy was named after this polar explorer hero. he was born in the city of bogorodsk , nizhny novgorod province, well, in our time it was, the gorky region, his mother was born, and from saratov, from a family of german colonists who settled in the volga region under the tsars, paternal grandfather zakhar solonin was a village literate author of the collection the ark of vetluzh antiquity, where he collected local epic tales or kendas, but the boy ’s father alexei solonin’s son was also a mute, he was responsible for the secretary of the regional newspaper, gorkovskaya pravda well, of course, at the beginning of the war german name for a boy. otto was changed to russian anatoly after the war, the family moved to saratov to the mother’s homeland, apparently, there were some other relatives who settled on oktyabrskaya street at number 24. so it is interesting that there is now a memorial plaque on this house, that the artist anatoly so