Tag #144845 - Interview #83317 (Margarita Farka )

I lived at the dormitory with Ismail in a separate room. When he was an undergraduate, he asked the embassy for permission to stay in the USSR, but he was refused. When he graduated from the Institute and defended his final thesis, he had to go back to Albania. I remained in Leningrad for several months, working as an engineer at the factory of musical instruments named after A. V. Lunacharsky. Later I obtained a visa and the year after I went to my husband together with our child. It was in 1957. 

I was met and welcomed cordially in Tirana, Albania.