This picture was made when we were on vacation at the summerhouse in Koltushy.
My cousin Ima (Yeremey), son of Grigory Breido, is jumping over father. I am standing to the right and watching them. Mom is far off, on the porch.
Ima graduated from the Leningrad Physical Training Institute named after Lesgaft, he went in for track and field athletics. He participated in the war with Finland, was wounded in his leg and quit going in for sports but worked as a coach.
When he stayed with us at the summer house in Koltushy, he constantly tried to prove to us, as well as to himself, that he was still capable of something, for instance, jumping with a damaged knee.
He started to play leap-frog [a game in which one participant bends down and the other one jumps over the first one] with dad.
During the war Ima was at the frontline and headed the therapeutic physical training department of the Army # 23, restoring the health of military men at the hospitals.
After the war he headed the Military Subfaculty at the Physical Training Institute in Leningrad and died in the 1959 after a skiing contest, which he arranged already being ill. He was buried at the Jewish cemetery.
