Volodia

Volodia Garin spent the first 15 years of his life petrified of water. […] He insisted on doing the jump into the Lagoda lake near St Petersburg. "Volodia decided he was going to do it himself," his mother, Tatyana Garina, told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.

2003 September 12, Nick Paton Walsh, “'He is alive in my head'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2014

Yet today, friends and neighbours displaced by the war are calling him to ask about the progress of the demining, eager to return. “They told me, ‘Volodia, I will be cultivating, I will rebuild here. I don’t want to leave any more,’” he [Volodymyr Kornich] says.

2024 February 24, Niema Abdelmageed, Antoine Vallas, “Two years of war in Ukraine: How a demining project is bringing hope to farmers”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024

At about 1:30 in the morning on March 26, Lidiia had gotten out of bed, freezing, to put more wood in the iron stove. Her daughter was asleep. They were alone. Her son, Volodia, 62, was sheltering at a friend’s house.

2022 April 9, Jane Arraf, “Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Names General to Unify Its Faltering Campaign”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022