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Boiko Kirill Ivanoivch born in March 1884 in the Ukraine. Peasant-resettler in the village Nevskai of Iman uezda in Primor'ye district. He worked in the Ussuri railway. In 1910 on the ship Siberia, he came to Hawaii--maybe the reason to leave Russia was that his wife was pregnant. Wife was Akulina Grigor'evna, who was only 14 yrs. In Hawaii they had 5 children. He worked for one yr. on a sugar plantation on the Big Island. Returned to Honolulu where he worked in the dry docks ($3 a day). Top of Page