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(Mykolaiv) at the coast of the Black Sea, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the USSR. Both parents, Olga Geist and Alexander Shutov, were naval engineers specializing in marine architecture (his mother worked on submarines and icebreakers). In 1943, probably considered as Black Sea Germans, he and his mother, aunt and grandmother, had to flee from

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