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Family Is All That Matters 106 Following the family's dedication to education, Ida graduated om a teacher's college and became first a teacher, then a high school principal. She married David Gluzman, also born in Gorodok, on the first of January, 1945. He worked in atomic security for the military and then as the junior deputy mayor at a nuclear research facility built deep in the forest. At first, the secret town was called only "the fih post office box." It was then referred to as Tomsk-7, and since 1992 it has been called Seversk. For many years it was illegal for journalists to even mention the name of the secret city, and because of the Soviet secrecy surrounding its atomic program, the Volsun family did not see Ida very oen. Ida and her family had a good life, befitting David's important position. Living in a city that didn't appear on any Russian maps granted the citizens of Tomsk-7 special privileges. Though there were many restrictions on personal eedoms—citizens were guarded with the same intensity as the nuclear weapons they produced—the shelves in stores were full and people did not have to wait as long for telephones and other services. Ida and David had two children, Vyachslev and Inna, named aer David's father and Ida's grandmother. Vyachslev, known as Slava, was born in 1947 in Reutov. Nearly 25 years later Slava married Natalya Voskresenskaya; they still live in Tomsk. He and Natalya had two children: Yura and Maria (Masha), both born in Tomsk-7. Yura married Larisa Zueva in 1999 in Tomsk, and the next year they le for Israel, where their children Erika and Korina were born. Yura's sister Masha had moved to Israel in 1997 but temporarily returned to Tomsk two years later to marry her childhood iend Aleksandr Malinovsky. Since he was not Jewish, they could not be married in Israel. Ida and David's daughter Inna was born in Tomsk-7 and in 1982 she married Sergey Primak in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Their daughter, Ekaterina, was born in Tomsk-7, 13 Above Le: Inna Gluzman in Tomsk, Siberia, 1957. Above right: Slava Gluzman in Moscow, Russia, 1949. Right: Inna Gluzman in Tomsk, Siberia, 1954. Bottom right: Slava Gluzman in Moscow, 1947. Facing page le: Ida Volsun-Gluzman in Tomsk-7, Russia, 1983. Facing page right: Senior Lieutenant David Gluzman in Moscow, Russia, 1945. Previous page: Ida Volsun in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1943. Mailed to her brither Iosif while he was fighting in the army.

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