Yury Davydov, 67, gets proof of his roots after years of waiting: his grandmother was Stalin's 14 year old lover.
Bronze statue had been erected last month in Surgut by local people, but was seen as offensive by descendants of political detainees sent to Siberia.
Statue to Soviet dictator erected close to proposed memorial to his victims of political repression is labelled 'blasphemy’.
New details emerge about 1928 odyssey that changed a dictator.
Painful reality and emotional 'forgiveness' after Tomsk man tracks down modern relatives of his ancestor's NKVD secret police killer.
'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.
Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.