They were friends since childhood, worked together rural blacksmiths. One holiday, two Koval met with the families.
- Listen, dear, if I ever have a son, and you have a daughter, or Vice versa, will be pretty close? – said Mikhail.
'Delighted,' replied Nicholas. His wife was also agree. Shook hands, drank – consolidated global supply – Sorokin and Kutikina intend to become a SWAT. But then the outbreak of world war II. Both the blacksmith went to the front. Two weeks later, the sorokins born son Kolya, six months later, Tachykinin – daughter. Soon Kutikina Nicholas received a letter in which he asked his wife Mary to call her daughter Lily, and not to forget about the engagement. It was his will – soon the soldier was killed.
Nicholas and Lily were in school together, were friends. Lily, who had not seen his father, there was no photo, I asked mom, who was like her father. "Nick Sorokin in your class learning? Here for him," said the mother. After serving in the army, Nikolai entered Kazan University, and Lily after school, he went by the Komsomol to the North, then returned and worked in Kazan. Then they found out about the engagement of parents. Soon their friendship blossomed into love.
They got married in a Big Shemyakino native village of Tetyushsky district in 1966, during the winter holidays. Signed in the village hall. The couple lived in different dormitories: he is in University, she's in construction. The firstborn – her daughter, Tanya, was born also in the hostel. Got first apartment, where were born the second daughter Lada and son Vadim. Then there were following the housewarming, engagements, weddings, christenings...
In March of this year, the happy family celebrated their Golden Wedding. To congratulate with children, sons-in-law, daughter in law grandchildren came to Artem, Roman and granddaughter Dariana. The celebration took place in the family Centre – famous the Cup of Love on the casserole. The anniversary received congratulations and gifts. Sorokin and spouses reciprocate with a gift to the mayor Metshin of Kazan – handed own novel-the trilogy "the Eternal river", which describes the working life of their dynasties in the history of the Republic, of the country. "The distinguished Ilsur Raisovich – the father of the city, which we love, and harmony lived up to the Golden Wedding in a wealthy family of eleven people," - noted in the note by the spouses sorokins.
Lilia Mykolaivna - Honored Builder of the Republic of Tatarstan. She worked in the Komsomol construction "Kazanorgsintez". Erected residential quarters of the former Leninsky district, was built the hotel "Tatarstan" and the airport, the number of other facilities in Kazan and its suburbs, as the state farm "Maysky", poultry.
Nikolay Mikhailovich worked head. Department of the newspaper "Soviet Tatarstan", nearly forty years was a correspondent of TASS in Tatarstan. In parallel he founded and for five years led the Republican newspaper "Suvar". Honored worker of culture of Russia and Tatarstan. The author of 9 books, the documentary "the Faith of the ancient people", was opened by the Orthodox Church of Paraskeva Friday in Kazan, street Big Red.