Denis Krupenev (kneeling second left) and his wife (standing second left) with some of his Tanzanian relatives when he visited Tanzania in 2013.PHOTO|COURTESY
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One year after he went back to Russia from the Tanzania his father, Shambogo William Isaiah Kitundu, died, Denis told The Citizen in an interview last month.
In 1980, Elena Krupenev who hails from the Smolensk Region met Kitundu while he was studying medicine in Pyatigorsk, a city located south-western Russia. Elena was then studying a course on foreign languages.