Tag #144823 - Interview #83317 (Margarita Farka )

We moved to Kazakhstan from Krasnovodsk [Soviet Republic in the Central Asia steppes, an independent state since 1991], to Alma-Ata [a town in the south of Kazakhstan, at the foothills of the Zailiysky Alatau mountain range, was the capital of Kazakhstan until 1995]. This town is not the capital of today’s independent Kazakhstan and is now called differently – Almaty. At first we spent the nights at the railroad station. Later we were provided with lodging on the outskirts of Alma-Ata. We were given a room in a barrack. Mother got a job as an accountant at the tobacco factory. The work was very hard and the payroll was very low. The money was earned for the family mostly by Grandfather, who constantly took tailoring orders.