Yulia has been reunited with her parents after 20 years. (Image: Police of Belarus/east2west news)"We were all in tears. We could not even talk, we only cried and hugged each other.''
A woman whose dad lost her on a train when she was just four years old has astonishingly been reunited with her family 20 years later.
Yulia Gorina, 24, mysteriously vanished in 1999 from a train travelling between Minsk and Asipovichy, Belarus, as her dad slept.
Somehow, she manged to end up more than 885km away in Ryazan, in neighbouring Russia, three weeks later, The Sun reported.
Yulia's parents searched desperately for her and ended up becoming the subjects of a police investigation.
The distressed couple were even made to take lie detector tests to prove their innocence when the case was reopened.
However, the family were reunited after Yulia's boyfriend, Ilya Kryukov, 31, tracked down the family online, with a DNA test proving Yulia is the daughter of Viktor and Lyudmila Moiseenko.
And her father has “begged her forgiveness” for losing her.
A notice about Yulia's disappearance in 1999. Photo / Belarus Police''We are so much alike.''
Yulia said: "It was proved by a DNA test, but it was clear even before, we are so much alike, as soon as we saw the photographs of each other.
"Nobody had any doubts - we are one family. I found not only my mother and father in Belarus, but also brother Dmitry and elder sister Nadezhda."
Reflecting on their reunion, she said: "We were all in tears. We could not even talk, we only cried and hugged each other.
"My parents have told me that they were searching for me for a long time, that they believed they would find me one day.
"My mother could not stop hugging me, she made me sit on her lap as if I was a little girl. We were chatting till 3am, and then Ilya and I had to go back to Russia - my daughter was waiting for me."
It remains unclear how Yulia got from Asipovichy to Ryazan, except she has a memory of a train journey with a mysterious couple who may have snatched her.
Yulia still lives in Ryazan where she was found on a railway siding in 1999.
Her real mother Lyudmila said: “Twenty years is like a whole life, but we never lost hope, we believed — and so we found each other.”
