An Adoption Story (S1): Adopted from Krasnodar, Russia to NY - Zachary-Victor's Journey
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- S1 EP8 (2023 Series) An Adoption Story: Zachary-Victor was adopted at the age of 8 months from Krasnodar, Russia by his American parents. He was raised in Long Island, New York to moving to Brooklyn to pursue a career in music.
Zachary-Victor shares the connections he has made with some of birth family to the support he has from his parents who adopted him.
This is his story.
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Thank you Zachary-Victor and one of your artists, Bacheler too for sharing your music with me for this story.
Where you can find Zachary-Victor on Social Media: / vitya.wav_
Bacheler (Artist) / bachbid5
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00:00 Introduction
00:36 Zachary-Victor's Title
03:19 Trying International Adoption
06:14 Adopting from Russia
09:42 Zachary-Victor's Childhood and Teenage Years
14:30 Finding Birth Family
18:31 Expectations of Finding Birth Family
23:03 Life in New York
25:55 Music Production and Building Family Tree
27:21 In the Studio / Music Beginnings
30:20 What's Next and Advice for Others
32:30 Outro and Thanks
I’m so proud of my son. Thank you so much Alex for her giving Zach and other adoptees an opportunity to share their story. And thank you for allowing me to be part of it.
Thank you Karen for being part of it. Thank you for sharing your experience for Zach!
Karen, you are a fantastic mother ❤. Thank you for your kindness and sincere!
This is almost exactly our story! We tried for 12 years! We adopted our 1st son domestically, then had 4 failed adoptions afterwards and finally went to Siberia to adopt our 2nd son. He was 14 months old. Soooo much pain, anxiety, stress and then joy! They are 28 and 24 now. His birth family includes an older half sister and younger half brother. Alcohol also involved. He was placed in an orphanage at 3 months old. She wasn't an addict but his grandmother who cared for him was and he wasn't safe. He's always known his story.
Amazing how we experienced such similar story.
Although my son never met his half siblings, they are aware of him and visa versa. His birth mom died at 36 a long time ago. He, unlike your son, doesn't feel the need to meet them though.
I love that he knows everything about his history. A sign of great parents. They treasured and remembered everything and passed it on.
Another very articulate adoptee!
Lovely and sad story, but at least he’s got a lovely sister and nephews. Hope he gets to meet his older sister and father.
I so agree people adopting, they are indeed special people loving caring and oh so giving full unconditional love ❤️ 😍 💖 without a doubt I have the utmost respect for these beautiful people they so deserve a gold medal for sure❤❤❤
Thank you, Alex and Zach. You are very lucky people to be adopted and not grow up in an orphanage. 🙏 Your lovely parents gave you all real love and happy childhood. This is much more important than all biological roots. Be happy and love ❤️
Thank you Alex and Zachary Victor, great episode
с удовольствием посмотрела эту историю, очень приятно видеть какими вырастают дети, прошедшие детский дом и усыновление. Я сама приемная мама, мой сын пока еще малыш, но понимаю сколько ему еще предстоит пройти. спасибо, Алекс, за этот проект, людям за то что делятся своими чувствами и переживаниями.
lovely story! Alez Gilbert great work!!
Everyone in this is so articulate and emotionally sensitive and mature. Really loved that you shared, and loved *how* you shared.
What a wonderful young man has become Victor thanks to his adopteve parents, they did such a great job! Каким замечательным человеком вырос Виктор благодаря приемным родителям! Vitya, come home, visit Russia, there is so much to learn. Витя, приезжай в Россию обязательно, чтобы соприкоснуться с корнями, еще столько предстоит узнать.
Thank you for your work, Alex. I've seen the story of you meeting your biological mother too. There are stories that I keep thinking of and going back to them for years, your story just doesn't let me go. It has survival in it, growing something beautiful out of not fortunate circumstances. Whishing you all the best!
Thank you for sharing your personal life . It touched my heart. God Bless you.
Awesome bravery. Thank you for sharing your experience and learning to help others.
This was a great interview! good advice too, much love!
Having watched a couple of adoption story videos, without being an adoptee myself, I sort of hear that there is some kind of ongoing process where emotions battle with facts and intellect and the persons you have interviewed expresses it in many ways. They seem to develop a strategy where both heart and brain manage to work things out and I must say that they are very eloquent when they express it, even though it is said in many different ways. It sounds easy when written down, but it must take a lot of effort to process it and that's worth loads of admiration. Thank you for making this series of videos that gives the rest of us a chance to understand a little of it.
I was placed for adoption in the 1960's. I only recently met my brother and 2 sisters because we all took a Ancestry DNA test. I flew back to Chicago to meet them. My bio father had a "fling" when he was in his early 20's and paid my bio mother off $500 which was a lot back in the day, to say I wasn't his. She used part of that money and flew to another state and gave me up. It was shameful for teens to have kids out of wedlock back then. He went on to get married and have the 3 kids. His kids didn't even know about me, he was too ashamed to tell me. He had passed away by this time but when the kids asked their mom about it after the DNA test, she said, "oh yea, I forgot about that. He had put a letter in the basement ceiling and told me if anyone ever came calling to get the letter". I never got that letter, he died and they sold the house.
Alex you are a gift to humanity, I have loved all the stories and I have only just found you. You are a gift to humanity for helping adoptees but also to birth parents who had to give you all up. We should never judge anyone especially birth parents. We dont know what caused them to have to give up their children. You are an amazing young man full of love and compassion. I live in Australia and have never thought about children who have been adopted. You have opened my eyes to another world and I am so grateful, Thank you
Very well done. This episode really captured the essence of Zachary's story and his feelings about everything surrounding his identity. Very proud of my nephew.
Good stuff, thank you
This was an amazing story, Alex. Thank you and Victor for sharing it. 😊👩👩👧👦
Great interview. It is interesting to see some distant similarities in his story to your own story.
I was also adopted from krasnodar in 1997
Did you have a good upbringing?
His story is beautiful, but his outlook on life is just incredible! I loved this and I hope to adopt someday.
Zachary's parents are great, and he grew up into a very intelligent, well-spoken, and talented man; it's a pleasure to listen to his story.
So true that real reunions are not like a movie. You really meet a person you never knew, and an instant connection is a rare thing, I guess. Besides, biological parents may feel anxious about not having a steady life, not being able to give their biological child anything (I don't mean finances or other material things); they may feel insecure because even years after their child was adopted, they still haven't archived anything their child could be proud of.
Lucky those who were adopted from Russia. And it's deeply wrong and sad that international adoptions were banned there.
Russia banned U.S. adoptions in 2012. This included adoptions in progress.
@@cal205 Well, I know when it happened. And lucky those who could catch the last adoption train. Russia did a stupid and cruel thing to all the orphans now left there without future.
I can see how that intro to music with “Wipeout” no less, after many months of quiet, and little stimulation, would be even more indelible on his brain, his psyche.
Awwe, he was such a cute baby! ❤
Собрались поговорить два русских человека... Спасибо тебе, Алекс! So interesting and deep conversation.
Спасибо большое)))!!
I am surprised that they only had to jump through all the hoops when they adopted overseas. Why don’t they have to do these things in the US?
There’s no resemblance with the sister but maybe because of different fathers? I wish there’s a DNA test done for all.
Is the biological mother gipsy?
I had a feeling that that family was not blood related to Zachary. Story felt unreal. Were they done DNA test ? I'd say : she doesn't strike me as a gipsy. According to the name of his younger newly obtained nephew , I'd suggest them being tatar. Zachary strikes me as half Russian half Jewish. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but having an eye of an artist that's my visual observation.
@@marinat187 Yes this story is a bit unreal.
@@marinat187 My first thought was "he must be Jewish". And then I see a חי neckless he wears, and then I see hanukkiah. Perhaps his parents who gave him love and care are Jewish, but he looks Jewish too. But it is important to remember that there is an unknown (to us) father in this equation. Also, it's not always the case that siblings and parents look alike, and his siblings may have a different father. We can inherit features from grandparents and even further. My elder brother never looked like our mother or his father, but he looked a lot like our grandma. When I was a kid, I looked nothing like my mother or father (people thought I was adopted, but I wasn't). As a grown up now I look a little bit like my mother, but still nothing like my father. Zachary may not look a lot like his biological half of the family, but that doesn't really mean he is not related to them.
I'm so glad this just popped up I don't know how I missed this episode this was fabulous great job Alex