Help find the family of Inessa Kashinskaya: Mogilev, 1947

In the autumn of 1947 a newborn girl was left at the Mogilev Children's Home. Almost eighty years later, her son is looking for her birth family.

Yuri Naidenkov, who lives in Germany, is searching for the birth relatives of his mother, Inessa Ivanovna Konrad. She was born on 10 October 1947 in Mogilev. Her birth parents were recorded as Ivan Kashinsky and Aleksandra Stefanovna Kashinskaya. Nothing else is known about them yet.

What the archives say

A certificate from the State Archive of the Mogilev Region confirms that the admissions journal of the Mogilev Children's Home contains entry No. 5, dated 29 November 1947, for Inessa Kashinskaya, born in 1947. Her age on arrival was given as one month and fifteen days. Next to it there is a single word: «abandoned». There was no information about her parents.

Inessa was later adopted by the Naidenkov family and for many years did not know that she had grown up with adoptive parents. The search began in 1991, when the Mogilev regional civil registry archive replied that her birth record named her parents: Ivan Kashinsky and Aleksandra Stefanovna Kashinskaya.

Who were the Kashinsky family?

The family wants to know who Ivan and Aleksandra Kashinsky were, where they lived after the war and whether they had other children or relatives. Any detail may help:

• the name of a village or a street in Mogilev or the Mogilev region;
• the surname of a relative or neighbour of the Kashinsky family;
• an old photograph, letter or family story from the 1940s;
• any memory of a baby girl left at the Children's Home in the autumn of 1947.

Older relatives may remember what younger ones never heard. If your family comes from Mogilev, please share this page with your parents and grandparents.

Spellings to search for

The surname may appear differently in documents and family records. The Kashinsky family may also have had Polish roots, so search for all forms:

• Kashinsky, Kashinskaya, Kashinskiy, Kashinski;
• Kaszyński, Kaszyńska (Polish);
• Kaschinski, Kaschinskaja (German);
• Кашинский, Кашинская (Russian), Кашынскі, Кашынская (Belarusian).

How to respond

If you know anything about the Kashinsky family who lived in Mogilev or the Mogilev region in the 1940s, write to the editors of Mogilev.media, who first published this search, or to hello@mogilevroots.com. Every message will be passed on to the family.