"Alaska man finds 50-year-old message in a bottle written by Russian sailor "

"Russia 1, the state-owned Russian media network,tracked down the actual letter writer — Capt. Anatoliy Botsanenko.

He examined it for a moment before he became teary-eyed, realizing that he indeed wrote the half-century old message..."

https://nypost.com/2019/08/19/alaska-man-finds-50-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-written-by-russian-sailor/