Grandfather's graduation photo. Third graduation of school No. 17 of Sverdlovsk city, academic year 1940-1941. On the far left in the last row is grandfather Yuri Sharin. "Grandfather's graduation fell on June 21, 1941. The next morning the Great Patriotic War began. It seems that of the 13 boys in my grandfather's class, only three returned home alive." Sverdlovsk, 1941

Grandfather Yuri Sergeyevich Sharin in the war in the rank of lieutenant of the medical service. The photograph was probably taken on 25-29 April 1945 near the village of Pelkeninken in East Prussia (now the village of Kabanovo in the Kaliningrad Oblast) immediately after my grandfather was awarded the first Order of the Red Star on 24 April 1945 and before his unit was sent to the Far East on 30 April 1945.

Wedding photos of parents. Father Anatoly Nikolayevich Pomortsev and mother Tatyana Yuryevna Pomortseva, Sverdlovsk, 1973

With the prize of the China International Press Photo Competition, 2013

Swimming pool pass, Sverdlovsk, 1984

Self-portrait, 2016

Nguyen Vuong, Praha 2025

Nguyen Vuong, Praha 2025

Mother going to first class. From left: grandmother Valentina Alexandrovna Sharina, mother Tatyana Pomortseva, and great-grandmother Praskovya Mikhailovna Sharina, Sverdlovsk, 1959

H.-G. Grech's paternal grandparents, celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in Bavaria, 1948

New Year's card of the parents' house in Drasenhofen, with skylight facing towards Mikulov

H.-G. Grech with his mother and her friends at the swimming pool in Mikulov, 1943

H.-G. Grech and his siblings Dietlinde and Gernot, 1951

H.-G. Grech with his daughters and first wife, 1986

H.-G. Grech and his siblings Dietlinde and Gernot

H.-G. Grech's parents and sister, 1941

H.-G. Grech with his sister Dietlinde, 1944

H.-G. Grech's mother

H.-G. Grech, 1954

H.-G. Grech's parents at the time of their golden wedding anniversary in Drasenhofen, with Pálava in the background; 1987

Otmar Oliva in a 2018 photo

Otmar Oliva in a 2018 photo

Hans-Günter Grech in 2025

Otmar Oliva

Witness with her grandmother, circa 1950