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In episode 6 of _Noir_ , Kirika brings Yuri Nazarov home after he faints and
finds [a family photograph](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c7DFP.jpg) hidden behind
a drawing of a cat. (See link for bigger version of image below.) On the back
of the photograph, there is something written in what is probably Russian.

[![back side of Nazarov's family
photograph](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c7DFPm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c7DFPm.jpg)

What is written on the back of the photograph? I have at best an extremely
poor knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet and the Russian language, so I have
not managed to read everything written there. My guesses so far are, going
line by line:

  1. Ivanov
  2. Natasha
  3. Yuri
  4. [I can't figure out what the middle two letters are.]
  5. Balkutsk 1951 [This is the line that Kirika reports to Mireille, so it must be correct.]


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What are the names written on the back of Yuri Nazarov's photograph?


Your guesses are correct. Some of the Cyrillic letters here are written in a
strange way: nobody writes ш ("sh") on the second line in this way. The letter
и on the third line has an underline that doesn't really belong. Abstracting
away such gratuitous elements, I think the fourth line is "Миша" (Misha, a
masculine name) in which the two middle letters are distorted with extraneous
pen strokes. The full text for completeness:

> Иванов  
>  Наташа  
>  Юрий  
>  Миша  
>  Балкутск 1951

Presumably, the photograph depicts one female (Наташа) and two males (Юрий,
Миша), with "Иванов" being their last/family name. (Actually, in Russian the
family name would be written in plural form, i.e., "Ивановы"). Балкутск being
the town where the photo is taken in 1951.


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