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Today, on Children’s Day, I unexpectedly received a gift from the documentary film director Tilek Murataliev!

Working in the archive of Film and Photographic Documents (KFPD) of the Kyrgyz Republic, he discovered footage from the chronicle, filmed on May 1, 1958, with our mother Lilya Turusbekova and dad Sanjarbek Daniyarov, and with us – sisters Asel and Gyuzel – in a double stroller. We are less than four months old here, and our parents are happy, full of expectations, she is an aspiring certified documentary filmmaker, and he is a young promising physiologist, PhD.

This charming story was made in the midst of a “thaw”. Such an informal but joyful story, the image of a young family, is woven into the newsreel footage that tells about the labor successes of the country’s citizens.

I have already found interesting family shots in the archive, for example, in 1951, my mother went to study in Moscow at the All-Union Institute of Cinematography, her mother, our grandmother, saw her off at the train station. And her whole appearance expresses enlightenment with joy, anticipation of the new, beautiful. And there are shots of 1959, where Lilya Turusbekova is awarded a high government award, she is 26 years old, she is young, thin and spirited. These images were used in two documentaries about her.

Our dad was a very noticeable, I would say charismatic young man, but so far I have not seen film footage of him at this age, he is 30 years old on this film.

I am glad to share with you these invaluable shots for me and my loved ones today