Wood was born Svetlana Lisa GurdinBirth registration at californiabirthindex.org; accessed June 24, 2015. to Russian immigrant parents, Maria Zudilova and Nicholas Zacharenko. They had each left Russia as child refugees with their parents following the Russian Civil War, and they grew up far from their homeland. Her father's family left Vladivostok after her grandfather, a chocolate-factory worker who joined the anti-Bolshevik civilian forces, was killed in a street fight in 1922;Finstad, 2001, p. 14. they settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, with their relatives, then moved to San Francisco. Lana's maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories in Barnaul; he left Russia with his family in 1918 after his eldest son was killed by the Red Army, and settled in a Russian community in Harbin, China.Natalie Wood's Russian roots excerpets from Natalie Wood: A Life by Gavin Lambert, 2004. Maria married Alexander Tatuloff there in 1925,Tatuloff, Alexander (September 17, 1934). Declaration of Intention, no. 89199. U.S. District Court Naturalization Index, 1852-1989. and they had a daughter, Olga Viripaeff, before divorcing in 1936."Interlocutory Divorce Decrees Granted". The San Francisco Examiner. March 17, 1936.
