New York City disappearing

Vladimir Kondratenko. Photo from family archive

It was a documentary in the United States. I am not a former cop or detective; I am a mother, a wife, a reporter, and a documentary maker. However, it turned out that he turned out to be dead. I realized it, but I realized that it was true. It is really easy to go. There was a legal resident and he / her fingerprints included in databases. I couldn’t even know how to go inside my vast territory. I can only take a guess. I’m trying to get a little bit more ... For instance, that of Vladimir Kondratenko from Gomel, Belarus, he was in 2017 years. I found him four years after I had first heard of him.

I never met Kondratenko in person. I couldn’t have died before I moved there. Before New York, he resided in Moscow, and I lived in Moscow. It’s Our paths couldn't cross. But he was the one who found him 15 for years. The first thing I did was when I saw it: “Well, hello. I've been looking for you for four years. ”I said this. I searched for him. Maybe because of his disappearance.

“Where are you, son?”

An unemotional report reads as follows: “An unidentified white male was found dead at a supermarket parking lot. ... No ID was found on him. Aged 40-45. ”It’s not a death.

His name was Vladimir Pavlovich Kondratenko. Born on Aug. 23, 1967 in Gomel, Belarus. Second, long-awaited son, a pride and joy to his family. His early life was always dragged to the army. However, where he got shell-shocked. His health suffered. He gave back to the girlfriend Vika. Pictures against carpets and unassuming walls, picnics at the courtyards, a bike —Vladimir's life returned to 'usual' again. If you’re a little bit different, you’ve been a little bit different. 2000 years of waiting. They’ve been divorced ... They both chose Brooklyn in New York at that time.

Vladimir Kondratenko and his family. Courtesy of Kondratenko's family archive.

July 2000. Brooklyn, New York. Vladimir got his green card So many events for one hot summer month. Calanthiurus, melancholy flooded him head to toes. His relationship with the ex-wife was ... Seeing his landmarks. She spends long away from cardiac failure; She grew up and left as well. What remained from Kondratenkos family in Gomel were two tombs and herself.

“I’m kept telling him - your son, I’m not alone, your father’s gone, please come back ... And he said: mom, I like it here. And I stopped asking, ”says Lidiya Arsentyevna in my documentary. Seems to look at it.

We were filming her in July, 2017. I’ve been well in my fifth year of searching for Volodya. I watched the footage across the ocean. “Where are you, sonny? Where are you? I'm so scared to never see you again! ”

I knew Volodya two days after this teary interview. There is no need to sleep during the subsequent three days. I had become so close.

Lost his memory or lost himself?

Thanks to Volodya, I like it and I like it. Thanks to their relatives. It has been the 1990s. The documentary wouldn’t have appeared, and you need to believe in fatality. It was good for everyone.

I had to spend days and nights in an archive. I’m a hot-tempered person. It was changed on April night in 2013. As I was lazily scrolling, I’ve seen it on my page; 250,000 shares. Still, I don't think I’m not sure. It has been known that it has been known for more than six months now. Still, I don't want to be disturbed because of me. If you’re curious, you’re none of my business.

“Friends, your attention please !!!! This is my brother Vladimir Kondratenko. He went to Brooklyn in the United States. Please understand this post. A Zhdi Menya Show (a TV show ed.) didn't help. Vladimir had problems with memory after his service in Afghanistan ..., ”her message reads.

Vladimir Kondratenko. Courtesy of Kondratenko's family archive.

Four years ago, it was not a city, but I’m there. Oksana responded, we talked to each other.

I had no plans of searching for Volodya. I wouldn’t even start because I wouldn’t find it. First, I’ve had so much time, A detective? Nope A former cop with skills still available? No. I am a mother of many children, a wife, a journalist. Finally, I’m an immigrant.

“I’ll write to a local newspaper; I would like someone to respond. And I kept my word. After the article about Volodya had been published in Russian bazaar I kept checking the newspaper. Bazaar is very popular in Russian community. “Someone should have seen him, someone knew him!” I kept thinking. “The person couldn’t just disappear!” It turned out he couldn’t you.

Vladimir Kondratenkos - they were just namesakes, not our Volodya. I double-double-checked everything: nope, it’s not what it’s not. Has he died? If so, why didn't they notify the family? I can understand it when I’m not allowed to cross the border through the desert. But Volodya was a legal resident. Why didn't they notify them? Does it mean he's alive? But I still started searching for him among the quick. I’m not sure I’m not happy.

“Lidiya Arsentyevna, could he just up and disappear? Was it like him? Did he do anything like it earlier? ”

“No, it was not like him ... He was an easy going guy, very kind. And he knew I was all alone ... Volodya couldn't do it. I feel something happened. What if he lost his memory? ”

My scavenger experience is poor. There could be no return home. For people who live there. But their memory lost. However, I heard this question more often in the previous six months than “How are you?” Relatives of missing people kept me about full or partial amnesia.

Volodya into three parts:

• He's dead.
• He’s become a homeless person and a drinker.
• He didn’t want to get in touch or get it off.

And then, reluctantly, I wrote “Possible memory loss.” Among others, I was searching for his memory.

The truth is out there

Volodya disappeared less than two years after moving to the United States. He made his phone call in late February 2002. Hesitated for a couple of people, and got disconnected. It turned out later, disconnected for good. I started looking for him in summer 2013. I realized it was in vain, but I still started from checking his home address. Not only tenants, even the owners of the building had changed since his disappearance. No one remembered or knew anything. No one could identify him from a photograph. However, there were many photographs among them. It was the windy street where the Volodya rented a room. He didn’t have to go back to his report.

It is a very important detail. “It’s mystically, leaving no signs ...” “Well, there’s not mystical about it. Nothing supernatural. It was lost. All of them are here. Thought to be taken. And a lack of professionalism; It is a problem. There is a lack of attention and carelessness. This is why people disappear for good. If you can't help but thinking about some witching involved.

If you want to go away, you can’t ... an unidentified person ... Alas and alack, even though it was supernatural stories.

Neither dead nor alive

I have been registered as a volunteer at www.namUs.gov. The US sees a huge number of bodies. Each state made by volunteers. It’s easy to lose your mind. www.namUs.gov It is an attempt to complete a single database. It’s still a lot of outdated information, but it’s still a lot of outdated information. The website is closed for volunteers; only police officers, FBI, or forensic have access to them. But it could be used. I sent you a message. Then he was not there.

Vladimir Kondratenko. Courtesy of Kondratenko's family archive.

I don’t know where to start. But when Volodya's information was published on the website, I felt I would find him. I will find him. Victoria was not able to start searching for a long time. It was a little girl. He was not interested in searching for him; why would she.

Lidiya Arsentyevna did all she could. She could do so little Zhdi menya show. Having received no response, she and Oksana called the show. They were disconnected. They couldn’t reach yet. Neither could they fly to the United States, and there was no sense in it. What would they do? Borrow money to do what? Report to the police? They were destined only for waiting, crying, and praying.

My next step was to conduct a poll. I showed a small church in Brighton. It was even given the shelter to the homeless people. But he didn’t have to go for the migration, It's a separate story worth of another documentary. But whats up?

The most horrible thing is Volodya from his photos. He was recognized later on as well as in 2014, years after his death ... 2017, 14 this person? ' The question should be worded differently. I’m not sure why I’m not sure why I’m thinking of a person. It will help you to relax. Hey, Hey, Hey! Isn’t that him who begs daily near the subway? Homeless who won $ 90 in a lottery?

And so on and so forth. It was horrible because Volodya's family. People were recognizing that I was angry at Volodya - how could you ??? His mom exhausted herself while he attends church masses and doesn't

Those who recognized the Volodya fighters club. Then I reached out to the freestyle wrestlers. It was an X-day timeline. I checked all hints patiently, but Volodya was not there.

“I've been looking for you for four years ...”

My decision to make a documentary about my searches came unexpectedly. Apart from Kondratenko's story, there was another one I was working on. Back in 2001 I met the family of Teterins from Moscow. 1990s. I had no clue ... I’m not sure about it. It is amid that happiness. Too much emotion had piled up in me over that time.

I started filming the next day after my college semester ended. I hired a cameraman in Gomel and one in Moscow. They were interviewing with the families of Vladimir and Anatoly. In the meanwhile, I decided to go through archives one more time - and more elaborately. I like to go through the database. I once again walked through. I once again contacted the Department on Homeless Service. I once again found that I’ve been buried in a collective grave on a Bronx cemetery.

I used to know how to use it. He was dead when he was dead.

There were more Vladimirs in the database - 12 people. I ran eyes over the familiar list. And then suddenly my heart was thrummed and plumped down. On April, 14, some Vladimir Kindretenko, 2003, was found dead in Brighton. I would like to ask you to clarify his last name. There was no reason for our community.

I’m not sure where I’ve been in New York State It is difficult to obtain a certificate.

“Please wait, I will open the original document,” a woman on the phone said. She returned in a minute and asked: “Is Kandatenko a correct last name?”

“No,” I said in a tired voice. “It's like Rodriguez - if you see, it’s a misprint. He's last name is Kondratenko ... ”

“I’ll send you the original document, what’s your address?”

Vladimir Kondratenko. Courtesy of Kondratenko's family archive.

I received the original document Kondratenko Vladimir written in with nice handwriting. I spent probably an hour sitting and staring at the name. It's over, he's dead. Well, hello, Volodya. I’m looking for it (1)) I’ve got it) written incorrect.

The document of the body registration.

It was not so good. His family has not been a Volodya! I saw it as just another mistake - it's over. Lidiya Arsentyevna lost her second son as well.

I remember messaging to Oksana. It was the same Volodya. I had nothing except for the feeling that it was him. “But why didn’t they inform anybody?” I found him.

“OK, thanks,” said Vika and hang up. She called me back after questions. She calmed down to talk.

A long way home

After I found a Volodya, I’ve got some hole torn in. I dived into the United States.

75-minute story. It focuses on the issue of foreign residents. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner. The numbers were not reached. They should have called. But they didn't.

Take Volodya. He has been identified by a dental dentist through a dental X-ray. Police had everything from fingerprints and SSN. It was a day after a trip to the Brooklyn. Do you know how many Volodyas are out there? Hundreds of them ... But there is no reason for their families. Why? I do not know. But my documentary looks into it.

I have never found Anatoly Teterin. His fate, like the fate of the tree more people, remains an unsolved mystery. Will I keep searching for them? I haven't decided yet. It's an emotional toll.

Vika and Lena identified their father’s photos. It was easy. Just no smile.

Vladimir Kondratenko with his family. Courtesy of Kondratenko's family archive.

I have no idea when I’m looking for it. I’m not sure why I’ve spent that week on ... But I know that I’m gonna fly. I know that Volodya's mom no longer cries into nowhere. She's now mourning her son's death. And it says,

The following is the case of the former republics. We found our parents after it. They are not allowed. Each story has its own end. I lived through all of them. Volodya was “Well, hello” to. And the only one I say “Bye, Volodya. I will always remember you. ”

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