Yes the parents are still around (well one of them is) to recount thier TU134 stories. At Manchester we used to get 154s from Aeroflot as well, I remember they always had a member of the crew on the tarmac all the time the aircraft was on the ground.
We used to get 134s from LOT as well as the odd IL18 and then there was the Sat morning Tarom IL62 flight as well