ABSTRACT
Rostov-on-Don lay in ruins, and the citizens had to build a city with a new structure, a new social environment, and a new political and cultural life. The "Politics of Reconstruction" was based on the assumption that Rostov had been a successful industrial hub, and according to the Fourth Five-Year Plan, the pre-war industrial level had to be surpassed in the near future. The Jewish community in Rostov-on-Don had been decimated: from numbering 27,039 in 1939, or 5.4 percent of the population, they declined to 2.7 percent in 1959. Aleksandr Pechersky had fallen in love with Olga, and soon he managed to convince her to join him in Rostov-on-Don where they started to live as a couple. In 1945, after the war ended, Pechersky had returned to Rostov, and later an incident was created around him. The first of the Russian survivors to conduct a search for Pechersky was Aleksey Vaytsen.
