Shevchenko was born in the town of Horlivka , eastern Ukrainian SSR , but when he was five years old his family moved to Yevpatoria , a resort town in Crimea on the Black Sea , where his physician father was the administrator of a tuberculosis sanatorium . When the Crimea was overrun by German forces in 1941 , he and his mother , along with the patients in the sanatorium , were evacuated to Torgai in the Altai mountains of Siberia . The family was reunited in 1944 after the Germans were driven out of the Crimea . He later recalled how his father attended the Yalta Conference , partially to observe and report on the health of Franklin Roosevelt
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Arkady Shevchenko