 Complete the following phrase:  Moskvitelev was born into a working-class family on 27 July 1926 in Vyazovy Gai, then part of , Samara Governorate, in the Russian SFSR, USSR. His family was affected by the famines in the early 1930s which caused considerable hardship in the Volga region in which they lived. Moskvitelevs mother died in 1938, while his father took employment as a mechanic at a machine tractor station, but still struggled to make a living wage. After the 