User talk:89.64.188.145

July 2022
Hello, I'm Serols. I noticed that you made a change to an article, George Shevelov, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Serols (talk) 06:44, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Serols,
 * Thanks for your message. I totally understand your concerns, and I would be happy to list a source I used to make this change. My correction is based on a memoir Ya, meni, mene... (I dovkruhy) written by George Y. Shevelov in 1987 in Ukrainian (https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Sheveliov_Yurii/Ya_mene_mene_i_dovkruhy_Spohady/). In his book, he elaborates on the fact of birth record falsification. Being scared of the bolsheviks after the Revolution, Varvara Shevelov, Shevelov's mother, reported his birth documents lost and used Lomza instead of Kharkiv  in a new birth certificate along with changing the social origin of his father to civil servant (p. 9, in Pdf). I am not sure if she changed the documents of her daughter as well since Shevelov does not mention that, but who knows. Anyway, Lomza was a town in another country, and nobody, she assumed, would be looking there. So, geographically Shevelov "became" Polish. In truth, he was born in Kharkiv at 4 Sorokin Place (p. 9, Pdf). Varvara Shevelov somehow managed to hide the social origin of her son and so-called Lomza falsification helped first when Shevelov was becoming a student in 1927 and then during numerous surveys till 1941.
 * To be fair, Lomza was not totally made up. Around 1910, Volodymyr Shevelov, Shevelov's father, who severed as an officer in the Imperial russian Army, was assigned to Lomza, and the family followed him (p. 9, Pdf). His wife and children got back to Kharkiv as soon as World War 1 started in 1914 and never knew how fate played out with their father after 1917.
 * I hope this helps.
 * Best,
 * Oksana 89.64.188.145 (talk) 13:07, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Please do not add or significantly change content without citing verifiable and reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Serols (talk) 06:45, 3 July 2022 (UTC)