Alina Lapteva

Alina was born in Russia on Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific Ocean, just north of Japan. The little town, Okha, where she and her sister, Katherine Lapteva, were born, was known back then as a center of Sakhalin's petroleum industry. Her parents, Leonid Laptev and Marina Lapteva, were sent there by USSR to work on oil rakes. As a child Alina ...