something about Soviet Union In Russia you can often run into that (it happens often), not very distant relatives lives far from each other. It comes after Soviet Union time. That time everybody received a list of jobpointes after getting an education. Young men and women must choose among this jobpoints the point, where they want to work next two years. After this two years the place could be changed, but very often it saved for full life since pension age. Many of jobpoints was from far places. Many children want to live far from their parents, when they are 22. And such children choose distant places for their job and removed there. So, one of my grandmothers was from Ukraine, and after college she moved to Siberia, then to Far East, and then to Voronezh. Far East is more than 5 thousands km away from Ukraine. My father was form Siberia, but he get the jobplace near to Perm, it is Ural, it is more than thousand km away from his native city.