When Irina and Woodford McClellan got
married, they never imagined it would be
another 11 years until they could be together.
In the early 1970s, Irina was living in Moscow
working for the Institute of World Economy
and International Relations. It was there that
she met an American professor named
Woodford McClellan. Irina and Woodford fell in
love and married two years later in May 1974.
Only a short while later, in August, Woodford’s
visa expired and he had to leave the Soviet
Union and return home.
Woodford tried to visit his wife in Moscow but
was repeatedly denied entry. In turn, Irina was
denied permission to leave the country,
without explanation. The two newlyweds
marked their anniversaries with cards,
photographs, and phone calls.
Over 11 years later, Irina finally received the
green light to move to the United States. In
late January 1986, she flew into the
Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
Her husband, whom she had last seen a
decade ago in an airport thousands of miles
away, greeted her with excitement and open
arms. Reporters there captured the
heartwarming reunion, and Irina further
captured the experience in a book

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