70 years ago Australia welcomed the first Soviet Ambassador who served here the longest of all his successors. The Head of the Soviet diplomatic mission Nikolai Mikhailovich Lifanov started his service in Canberra which was a significant step for the bilateral relations between the two countries. Here Lifanov's family stayed until 1953. We ask his elder son Mikhail, who lives in Moscow, what it is like to be the son of the first Ambassador to Australia, and what was his childhood spent in the fifth continent.
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