Anatoly Ionin

IONIN, Anatoly - Age 93, of Flint, passed away June 25, 2025. Funeral Service will be held at 11:00AM Sunday, June 29, 2025, at the Chapel at Machpelah Cemetery, 4615 Branch Rd, Flint, MI 48506. Anatoly was born June 27, 1931 in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia, the eldest son of four children of Iosef Ionin and Raisa (Barskaya) Ionina. Along with his parents and siblings, Anatoly was a Holocaust survivor. In 1955, Anatoly graduated with Honors from Pavlov First State Medical University of St. Petersburg. He worked for nearly 40 years as a general surgeon and later as a chief of surgery at several hospitals in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg). In 1967-1968, he participated in an expedition to Antarctica, where he worked as a physician and clinical researcher. In 1994, Anatoly immigrated to the United States with wife Dina Ionina and his mother-in-law Zlata Nosonovskaya, where he joined his children and grandchildren; in 1998, he became a naturalized US citizen. Upon arriving in the US at the age of 62, Anatoly passed the surgical assistant examination and worked as a surgical assistant at St. Joseph Hospital in Flint. Subsequently, he worked in the Statistics Department at Hurley hospital and later volunteered at the International Institute of Flint. At the International Institute, Anatoly translated documents and assisted Russian-speaking refugees with filling out immigration forms and applications, as well as helped them with tax forms and medical documentation. Anatoly is survived by his younger brother Yury Ionin (Irina Ionin), as well as his two children and four grandchildren: daughter Marina Ionina-Prasov (George Prasov), grandsons Zahar Prasov (Alexis Prasov) and Lev Prasov (Sarah Garnai); son Boris Ionin (Raisa Ionin), granddaughters Inna Ionin and Julie Ionin. Online tributes can be shared at www.sharpfuneralhomes.com.