Kira Kudrin

Born in Voronezh, Russia, she was the daughter on Anisya Turbina and Nicolai Mihailovich. Both of her parents obtained MDs. She was 7 years old when World War II started. Together with her mother, she experiences horrors of occupation of Nazi Germany in 1942 and 1943. They are both in Kursk Oblast when the Battle of Kursk battle took place in 1943. After the war, and completing high school, she was accepted to Leningrad university, in the mathematics department. There, she met and married her husband, Victor Kudrin from Dnepropetrovsk. Both graduated in 1958 and accepted research positions in Academic-town near Novosibirsk, in Siberia, Russia.

In Academic-town she had two sons, Sergey b.1959 and Alexander b.1962. There, she worked in Mathematics Institute in a group headed by Politaev. She later said that it was the happiest period of her life. Both Kira and her husband Victor became PHD recipients and had successful careers in research and as lecturers at Novosibirsk State University. In 1976, as a press campaign started in the Soviet Union against Andrei Sakarov, Victor Kudrin publicly defended academician Sakarov, including publishing a letter to the NY Times in his defense. Kira and her family immigrated to the United States in 1977 and started their second career as Computer Programmers. Kira worked at Pitney Bowes for many years, until retirement.

Kira Kudrin is survived by son Sergey, his wife Larisa, and granddaughter Bertina. She also survived by son Alexander, his wife Lucyna, and grandson Alexander Philip.