EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is from the Inlander archives, having first been published on November 30, 2000. When Yelena Solodyankin arrived in Spokane nine years.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was first published on December 8, 1993. Soft-spoken and gentle-eyed, almost plaintively accommodating, Spokane residents Yelena and Alexander Solodyankin are rewarded.