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Déplacés, Ouzbékistan, 2002

Rip Hopkins

L’Ouzbékistan est une invention soviétique. Jusqu’à la révolution d’octobre 1917, l’idée même de nation est étrangère à l’Asie centrale. Les habitants se définissent en tant que nomades ou sédentaires, en tant que turcophones ou persanophones, ou simplement comme musulmans. L’élément identitaire le plus important reste la famille, le clan.

Tout cela change avec l’arrivée des communistes au pouvoir. D’après Staline, en effet, pour devenir soviétique, tout homme doit préalablement appartenir à une nation. L’Asie centrale est donc divisée en cinq pays, chacun doté d’une identité ethnique et d’une langue officielle. Les habitants, qui ne s’étaient jamais posé la question, sont donc obligés de décider à quelle nation ils appartiennent désormais. Petit à petit, au cours du XXème siècle, les dialectes se perdent, et les richesses de grandes villes comme Samarcande ou Boukhara sont mises à mal par un pouvoir qui semble nier leur importance historique et culturelle.
Pourtant, parallèlement, l’immigration crée un nouveau mélange de nationalités. Tout au long de la période soviétique, les autorités perçoivent l’Ouzbékistan (et l’Asie centrale dans son ensemble) comme un lieu d’exil de populations potentiellement dangereuses. Les européens et les autres groupes non-indigènes de l’Asie centrale arrivent en Ouzbékistan en plusieurs vagues : travailleurs industriels à partir des années trente, prisonniers politiques dans les années cinquante, populations entières soupçonnées de collaborer avec l’ennemi et déportées par Staline pendant la seconde guerre mondiale. Celles-ci incluent des Allemands, des Ingouches, des Karachays, des Balkars, des Tchétchènes, des Turcs, des Tatars et des Coréens, dont beaucoup meurent en chemin ou peu après leur arrivée.

Aujourd’hui, le président Islam Karimov détient le pouvoir absolu : il décide aussi bien du salaire attribué aux jardiniers municipaux que des quotas de production d’or. La fréquentation des mosquées est tombée en raison du harcèlement des musulmans pratiquants mené par les agents gouvernementaux. La fragilité de l’économie et la confiscation par des dirigeants locaux du pouvoir politique et administratif font que de nombreux membres des vingt groupes ethniques minoritaires qui constituent l’Ouzbékistan ont entrepris de regagner leurs pays d’origines. Des 1 600 000 Slaves (Ukrainiens, Russes, Biélorusses), 60 000 émigrent tous les ans. Entre 1992 et 2000, plus de 100 000 Allemands sont partis définitivement, ainsi que l’ensemble de la communauté juive achkénaze. Même la communauté juive de Boukhara, qui existait depuis le IXème siècle, est partie en Israël ou à New York. La communauté tatare diminue au rythme de 40 000 personnes par an, laissant derrière elle d’autres communautés dont les membres émigrent à la cadence de 10 % par an.
Une partie importante de l’histoire et de l’identité de l’Ouzbékistan disparaît avec cet exode. Les émigrants laissent derrière eux un vide culturel et économique, des villes, des villages et des kolkhozes fantômes, où seuls restent ceux qui sont trop vieux ou trop pauvres pour partir. Tous rêvent de retrouver ce pays d’origine qu’ils n’ont souvent jamais connu mais qui, peut-être, les reconnaîtra, et fuient cette « nation » qu’ils ont contribué à inventer mais qui semble aujourd’hui les rejeter.

© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200229/07/02Iulia Muza in Tashkent's Greek Community Centre. She is 19 years old. She is half Russian, half Greek and studies English and German at Tashkent's Pedagogical University. Her father's parents came here in 1949 following the communists' defeat in the Greek civil war. She will leave for Athens, Greece once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200229/07/02Alexandra Baclanova in Tashkent's Greek Community Centre with a painting depicting communists during the Greek civil war. She is 52 years old. She is Greek and works as the Centre's care taker. Her parents came here in 1949 following the communists' defeat in the Greek civil war. She wants to leave for Greece, but no longer has contact with her family there.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200230/07/02Dilya Mukhamedjanova is a chemical analyst teaching at Tashkent's Science Institute. She is 60 years old. She is Russian, her parents were sent here by Stalin. She will leave to join her children and grandchildren living in Russia. N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200201/08/02Pak Nadejda Nikolaevna in Tashkent's Almazar Street Telephone Exchange. She is 74 years old. She is Korean, her father was sent here from the Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave to join family members in Almata, Kazakhstan.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Road in Tashkent's town centre leading to Uzbekistan's President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov's private residence. The inscription on the bridge reads : The next generation will receive this land.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Nickolay Savinikh is a blacksmith working in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 47 years old. His parents came from Russia during the 1940's famine in Moscow. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Lubov Rascheskina Ivanovna in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. She is 54 years old. She is a barrister but cleans in the factory during the day. Her parents were Russians sent to Kirgizstan by Stalin in the 1946, they then came to Uzbekistan in the late 1960s. She wants to leave for Moscow.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Viktor Viktorovich in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 17 years old. His mother is Uzbek and his father is Ukrainian, he is still at high school but he works in the factory during the holidays. He will leave for Kiev, Ukraine once he finishes school.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Alexandr Chekhovskiy Ivanovich is an industrial designer working in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 53 years old. He was born in Russia, his mother is half Polish, half Russian and his father is Russian. He came to work in Uzbekistan in 1984. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Machine workers in the canteen in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines.Sergey Ni works on the lathe. He is 45 years old. He is Korean. He doesn't want to leave.Khamski Xanskinch is a drill operator. He is 27 years old. His parents were sent here from the Ukraine in the 1950's by Stalin. He will leave for Odessa, Ukraine in four months.Yetgem Ebremil is a blacksmith. He is 54 years old. His parents came here from Tatarstan when he was 3 years old. He wants to leave for Tatarstan.Alexandr Galinov Rifkatovich is an apprentice in the factory during his school holidays. He is 15 years old. He is Tatar, both his parents were born here. He wants to leave for Russia once he finishes school.Famil Mingarinov is a mechanic. He is 53 years old. He came with his parents from Tatarstan, sent by the Soviet authorities to rebuild Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake. He wants to leave for Tatarstan.Kirill Galimov is a mechanical engineer. He is  51 years old. He is Tatar. He has already left for Russia.Takhir Azizov Tolipovich is a machine operator. He is 50 years old. He is Tajik, he was born in Tashkent and he does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02David Silagava (standing on the table) owns Tashkent's Genatsvale restaurant which specialises in Georgian food. He is 35 years old. Victorya Bodua is David Silagava's wife. She is a primary school teacher and cook. She is 29 years old. Both Victorya's and David's parents came from Georgia, sent by the Soviet authorities to rebuild Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake. They  want to leave for Georgia are waiting for the economic and political situation there to improve.Vildan Zaidov works in the restaurant. He is 27 years old. He is Tatar, his parents came here in the 1967. He wants to leave for New York.Vyacheslav Morozov Alexandrovich works in the restaurant. He is 25 years old. His  Russian parents were born here. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02The Khamid Olimdjon monument and Business Centre with flats for sale above it in Tashkent's town centre.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02Lena Olegovna in Tashkent's Gifts of Mother Nature wine shop owned by President Karimov's eldest daughter, Lola Karimova. Lena is 24 years old. She is a Russian and English translator. Her mother is half Russian, half Tatar and her father is half Russian, half Uzbek. She wants to leave for Norway.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Elena Nikitina, Tatyana Chelovanova, Nastya Laxbeonova and Kristina Chagaeva in Tashkent's Catholic Church's crypt.Elena Nikitina is 22 years old. She studies journalism in Tashkent's school of journalism. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She has already left for Warsaw, Poland.Tatyana Chelovanova is 24 years old. She is a Russian and English translator. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave for Poland.Nastya Laxbeonova, 11 years old, school girl, Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She will to leave for Poland once she finishes her studies.Kristina Chagaeva, 17 years old studying Russian and English translation in Tashkent's Central University. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937 and 1953. She will leave for Poland once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02300 year old Polish icon in Nikitina Galina Mikhaylovna's house in Tashkent's town centre. She is 42 years old. She is a florist designer. Her parents are ethnic poles whose grandparents were sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Amelia Wolfhart in her sitting room. She is 45 years old. She is German and teaches at Tashkent's Institute of History. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine sent by Stalin to a Gulag in Siberia. They came to Uzbekistan in 1964 as they were forbidden to return to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities. She wants to leave but has nowhere to go.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Amelia Wolfhart's mother. Amelia Wolfhart is 45 years old. She is German and teaches at Tashkent's Science Institute. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine sent by Stalin to a Gulag in Siberia. They came to Uzbekistan in 1964 as they were forbidden to return to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities. She wants to leave but has nowhere to go.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Anastasya Ni is 2 years old sitting with her great grandmother Elestaveta Kan who is 77 years old, in the family flat in Tashkent. Elestaveta Kan was sent to Uzbekistan with her Korean parents from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Larisa Kim in her flat in Tashkent. She is 43 years old. She is a radiologist in Tashkent's Central Hospital. Her Korean parents were sent to Uzbekistan from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200205/08/02The inscription on this building (Gulla Yashna Mustaqil Ozbekiston!) in Tashkent's town centre reads : Let  independent Uzbekistan flourish!N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200205/08/02The inscription on this bill board (Har doim Mustaqil!) in Tashkent's town centre reads : Let it always be Independence!N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200206/08/02Sholom, Isak and Iosef in Tashkent's Bukhara Synagogue.Sholom is 62 years old. He is a retired cobbler. He was born in Bukhara and he has already left for Israel to join his family.Isak is 60 years old. He is a retired shopkeeper. He was born in Bukhara and has already left for Israel to join his family.Iosef is 30 years old. He is an electrician. He was born in Bukhara and has already left for New York via Israel to join his family.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Nataliya Popova in her house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 54 years old. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Nataliya Popova's bed in her Gazalkent house, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 54 years old. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Photograph of Nataliya Popova's father's grandmother taken in Russia in 1955. Natalia is 54 years old and lives in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents was sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Photographs of Nataliya Popova's father's grandparents when they were children, taken in Russia towards the end of the 19th century. Natalia is 54 years old and lives in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents was sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Dina Popova lives with her mother Natalia in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 18 years old. She is studying at Tashkent's college of art. Her grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Europe once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Lisa Maliyavini with her granddaughter Lisa Maliyavini and her daughter Olga Maliyavini selling their possessions in front of their house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent.Lisa Maliyavini is 76 years old. She is a retired accountant. She was sent here from the Russian Volga region by Stalin in 1939. Lisa Maliyavini is 10 years old. She is a school girl.Olga Maliyavini is 42 years old. She was an officer in the Soviet KGB, she is now an Uzbek army sergeant. Her father was also Russian, sent here by Stalin in 1937.They have left for Novgorod in Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Olga Nikolaeva and Alex Dmitriev in the house that Olga has just sold in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent.Olga Nikolaeva is 45 years old. She is a foreman at the local food canning factory. Her mother's parents came here for a better life from Russia in 1946 and her father's parents were born here. She has left for Krasnodar in Russia.Alex Dmitriev is 21 years old. He studies at Tashkent's School of Journalism. His parents are both Russian who were born here. He will leave for Moscow with his parents once he finishes his studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Riharte Kessler selling his possessions in front of his house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. He is 63 years old. He is a technician in the local marble factory. His parents were ethnic Germans from the Russian Volga region sent here by Stalin in 1941. He has left for Germany with his wife and two sons.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Zitriy and Sofiya Beridze in their Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Zitri Beridze is 82 years old. He was a truck driver.Sofia Beridze is 79 years old. She was a house wife.They are both Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They don't want to Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Muhitdin and Rashid Beridze preparing for Murat Iliyasov's (middle) wedding in front of Murat's Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Muhitdin Beridze is 23 years old. He is a vet.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Rashid Beridze is 22 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Muhitdin and Rashid Beridze during Murat Iliyasov's (middle) wedding on top of Murat's Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Muhitdin Beridze is 23 years old. He is a vet.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Rashid Beridze is 22 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Dilfuza Beridze his helped by her two sisters during her marriage to Murat Iliyasov in front his Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Dilfuza Beridze is 22 years old. She will be a house wife.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200209/08/02Irina Zaharova with Igor Rjevskiy and Sergey Gavrilin Yuryevich in Tashkent's Farovon vodka factory.Irina Zaharova is 23 years old. She is the director's secretary. Her Father is Russian and her mother is half German, half Polish. She wants to leave for Germany.Igor Rjevskyi is 41 years old. He is a truck driver. He is Russian and will leave for Russia.Sergey Gavrilin Yuryevich is 42 years old. He is a truck driver. He is Russian and does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200209/08/02The vodka analysis laboratory in Tashkent's Farovon vodka factory.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200211/08/02Ravil Tukhvatulin treats Petrushin Valeriy Fedorovich following an operation to remove a lung tumor in Tashkent's Tahtapul oncology hospital.Ravil Tukhvatulin is 42 years old. He is a surgical oncologist. Stalin sent his parents here from Tatarstan in 1944. He will leave for Saint Petersburg, Russia.Petrushin Valeriy Fedorovich is 57. He is an electrician. His grandparents came here from Russia in 1944. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200211/08/02Valentina Chetverekova Konstantinova following an operation to remove a lung tumor in Tashkent's Tahtapul oncology hospital.She is 64 years old. She is an economist. She is Russian, her grandparents came from Siberia in 1945 for economic reasons. She wants to leave for Russia with her family.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Dina Djamaletdinova in Mishel Fedorachin's Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for England once she finishes her studies.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Mishel Fedorachin drawing on Dina Djamaletdinova in his Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for Europe after university.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Mishel Fedorachin makes a felt tip drawing on Dina Djamaletdinova in his Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for Europe after university.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200214/08/02Emiliya Azimova Karimovna waiting in Tashkent's Uzbekistan Sport and Health Centre massage parlor. She is 54 years old. She is head of staff at the Sports Centre. Her mother is German from the Russian Volga region sent to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1941 and her father is Uzbek. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Nurobod's Coal Power Station making power for the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Sveltana Demid in front of an inscription reading : Angren is 30 years old, in the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent. She is 21 years old. He is an accountant. Her Russian mother came from Kirgizstan in 1985 and her father's parents came here to build Angren in 1950. She does not know if she will leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Cement factory in the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200217/08/02Albina Ilyasova and Lena Tratimava in Tashkent's Valentina restaurant.Albina Ilyasöva is 20 years old. She works as a waitress whilst studying to be a police woman. Her mother is Korean and her father is Tatar, they came here together from Ukraine to study and stayed. She wants to leave for Odessa, Ukraine.Lena Tratimava is 19 years old. She works as a waitress whilst studying to be a police woman. Her mother's parents came here from Russia in 1953 and her father is an Ashkanaz Polish Jew from Ukraine whose parents were sent here by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200217/08/02Wu Janliang and Tanya Poleva in Tashkent's Billiard Klub.Wu Janliang is 55 years old. He is the director of a language institute in Peking, China.Tanya Poleva is 22 years old. She studies at Tashkent's Oriental Language Institute. All her grandparents are Russian and were born here. She does not want to leave.N°10650
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Irina Zolotareva and Anastasiya Zolotareva with Nadejda Vodotievskaya and Diana Vodotievskaya in Tashkent's Korean Zolotoe Runo restaurant.
Irina Zolotareva is 41 years old. She is a hairdresser. Her parents came from Russia. She wants to go to Moscow with Anastasiya, her 5 year old daughter.
Nadajda Vodotievskaya is 48 years old. She is a hairdresser. Her grandparents came from Russia during the 1930's. She and Diana, her 12 year old daughter, do not want to leave.

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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200219/08/02Uzbekistan's President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov in a Tashkent flat.N°10650
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20/08/02
Alexey Khegay and Kulnazar Saribaev in a Yak-40 aeroplane between Tashkent and Nukus.
Alexey Khegay is 19 years old. He is a telecommunications student in Tashkent. His Korean grandparents were sent to Nukus in Karakalpakstan from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. He will leave Nukus definitively for Tashkent once he finishes his studies.
Kulnazar Saribaev is 47 years old. He is a police captain in charge of Nukus's immigration and visa department (OVIR). His father is Uzbek and his mother is Karakalpak. He wants to leave Nukus for Tashkent.
On arrival at Nukus' airport I was arrested and spent a brief spell in prison, I got out by paying a heavy bribe and had to leave the area within 24 hours.

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21/08/02
Sergey Bakaushin Lipatovich and his wife Maria Bakaushina Stepanova with other sailors pictured during the 1950s and 1960s, in Muynak harbor town on the Aral Sea (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan).
Sergey Bakaushin Lipatovich is 68 years old. He was Muynak's port captain until the port moved westwards to the Sarikamish Lake in 1983. His grandfather was exiled here by the Tsar at the end of the 19th century, his father was sent here by Stalin in 1932. Maria Bakaushina Stepanova is 70 years old. She worked in one of Muynak's five fish canning factories. Her parents were sent here from Russia by Stalin in 1931.
They have left for Mordoviya, Russia.

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22/08/02
Beached fishing boat in what was previously Muynak harbor town's port. (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan).

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22/08/02
Nikolay Gilyoav in Muynak harbor town's grocery shop (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan). He is 50 years old. He is unemployed and has spent 23 years in Karakalpakstan's Turtkul prison. His father kidnapped his mother and to escape punishment he took her from Russia to Muynak in 1949. He wants to leave, but has nowhere to go.

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Guzel Fazalova with Raylon Moisseeva and her daughter Olga Moisseeva waiting in Tashkent's North Station. Guzel Fazalova is seeing off her friend Olga Moisseeva who is leaving Uzbekistan definitively on the eight o'clock evening train to Moscow.
Guzel Fazalova is 13 years. She is a school girl. Here parents were sent here from Tatarstan. She will leave for Tatarstan with her family as soon as her brother finishes his military service.
Raylon Moisseeva is 33 years old. She is a cook. Her mother is Uzbek and her father is Tatar. She will leave for Tatarstan in three months to join her daughter and husband.
Olga Moisseeva is 13 years old. She is a school girl. Her father's grandparents were sent her from Russia in 1933. She has left for Moscow, Russia.


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Dilbara Asanovna in Tashkent's Train Museum's entry kiosk. She is 60 years old. She is a nurse and has worked as a cashier in the train museum for 7 years. She was sent here with her parents from Russia by Stalin in 1954. She wants to leave for Russia.

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Gavrega Natalia Stepanovna dans son appartement à Angren. Elle a 38 ans. Elle est professeur d'anglais dans une lycée d'Angren. Ses parents sont venus à Angren de la Russie en 1950 pour construire la ville. Elle veut partir en Russie. 16/08/02


© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200229/07/02Iulia Muza in Tashkent's Greek Community Centre. She is 19 years old. She is half Russian, half Greek and studies English and German at Tashkent's Pedagogical University. Her father's parents came here in 1949 following the communists' defeat in the Greek civil war. She will leave for Athens, Greece once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200229/07/02Alexandra Baclanova in Tashkent's Greek Community Centre with a painting depicting communists during the Greek civil war. She is 52 years old. She is Greek and works as the Centre's care taker. Her parents came here in 1949 following the communists' defeat in the Greek civil war. She wants to leave for Greece, but no longer has contact with her family there.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200230/07/02Dilya Mukhamedjanova is a chemical analyst teaching at Tashkent's Science Institute. She is 60 years old. She is Russian, her parents were sent here by Stalin. She will leave to join her children and grandchildren living in Russia. N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200201/08/02Pak Nadejda Nikolaevna in Tashkent's Almazar Street Telephone Exchange. She is 74 years old. She is Korean, her father was sent here from the Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave to join family members in Almata, Kazakhstan.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Road in Tashkent's town centre leading to Uzbekistan's President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov's private residence. The inscription on the bridge reads : The next generation will receive this land.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Nickolay Savinikh is a blacksmith working in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 47 years old. His parents came from Russia during the 1940's famine in Moscow. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Lubov Rascheskina Ivanovna in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. She is 54 years old. She is a barrister but cleans in the factory during the day. Her parents were Russians sent to Kirgizstan by Stalin in the 1946, they then came to Uzbekistan in the late 1960s. She wants to leave for Moscow.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Viktor Viktorovich in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 17 years old. His mother is Uzbek and his father is Ukrainian, he is still at high school but he works in the factory during the holidays. He will leave for Kiev, Ukraine once he finishes school.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Alexandr Chekhovskiy Ivanovich is an industrial designer working in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 53 years old. He was born in Russia, his mother is half Polish, half Russian and his father is Russian. He came to work in Uzbekistan in 1984. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Machine workers in the canteen in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines.Sergey Ni works on the lathe. He is 45 years old. He is Korean. He doesn't want to leave.Khamski Xanskinch is a drill operator. He is 27 years old. His parents were sent here from the Ukraine in the 1950's by Stalin. He will leave for Odessa, Ukraine in four months.Yetgem Ebremil is a blacksmith. He is 54 years old. His parents came here from Tatarstan when he was 3 years old. He wants to leave for Tatarstan.Alexandr Galinov Rifkatovich is an apprentice in the factory during his school holidays. He is 15 years old. He is Tatar, both his parents were born here. He wants to leave for Russia once he finishes school.Famil Mingarinov is a mechanic. He is 53 years old. He came with his parents from Tatarstan, sent by the Soviet authorities to rebuild Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake. He wants to leave for Tatarstan.Kirill Galimov is a mechanical engineer. He is  51 years old. He is Tatar. He has already left for Russia.Takhir Azizov Tolipovich is a machine operator. He is 50 years old. He is Tajik, he was born in Tashkent and he does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02David Silagava (standing on the table) owns Tashkent's Genatsvale restaurant which specialises in Georgian food. He is 35 years old. Victorya Bodua is David Silagava's wife. She is a primary school teacher and cook. She is 29 years old. Both Victorya's and David's parents came from Georgia, sent by the Soviet authorities to rebuild Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake. They  want to leave for Georgia are waiting for the economic and political situation there to improve.Vildan Zaidov works in the restaurant. He is 27 years old. He is Tatar, his parents came here in the 1967. He wants to leave for New York.Vyacheslav Morozov Alexandrovich works in the restaurant. He is 25 years old. His  Russian parents were born here. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02The Khamid Olimdjon monument and Business Centre with flats for sale above it in Tashkent's town centre.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02Lena Olegovna in Tashkent's Gifts of Mother Nature wine shop owned by President Karimov's eldest daughter, Lola Karimova. Lena is 24 years old. She is a Russian and English translator. Her mother is half Russian, half Tatar and her father is half Russian, half Uzbek. She wants to leave for Norway.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Elena Nikitina, Tatyana Chelovanova, Nastya Laxbeonova and Kristina Chagaeva in Tashkent's Catholic Church's crypt.Elena Nikitina is 22 years old. She studies journalism in Tashkent's school of journalism. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She has already left for Warsaw, Poland.Tatyana Chelovanova is 24 years old. She is a Russian and English translator. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave for Poland.Nastya Laxbeonova, 11 years old, school girl, Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She will to leave for Poland once she finishes her studies.Kristina Chagaeva, 17 years old studying Russian and English translation in Tashkent's Central University. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937 and 1953. She will leave for Poland once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02300 year old Polish icon in Nikitina Galina Mikhaylovna's house in Tashkent's town centre. She is 42 years old. She is a florist designer. Her parents are ethnic poles whose grandparents were sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Amelia Wolfhart in her sitting room. She is 45 years old. She is German and teaches at Tashkent's Institute of History. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine sent by Stalin to a Gulag in Siberia. They came to Uzbekistan in 1964 as they were forbidden to return to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities. She wants to leave but has nowhere to go.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Amelia Wolfhart's mother. Amelia Wolfhart is 45 years old. She is German and teaches at Tashkent's Science Institute. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine sent by Stalin to a Gulag in Siberia. They came to Uzbekistan in 1964 as they were forbidden to return to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities. She wants to leave but has nowhere to go.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Anastasya Ni is 2 years old sitting with her great grandmother Elestaveta Kan who is 77 years old, in the family flat in Tashkent. Elestaveta Kan was sent to Uzbekistan with her Korean parents from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Larisa Kim in her flat in Tashkent. She is 43 years old. She is a radiologist in Tashkent's Central Hospital. Her Korean parents were sent to Uzbekistan from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200205/08/02The inscription on this building (Gulla Yashna Mustaqil Ozbekiston!) in Tashkent's town centre reads : Let  independent Uzbekistan flourish!N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200205/08/02The inscription on this bill board (Har doim Mustaqil!) in Tashkent's town centre reads : Let it always be Independence!N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200206/08/02Sholom, Isak and Iosef in Tashkent's Bukhara Synagogue.Sholom is 62 years old. He is a retired cobbler. He was born in Bukhara and he has already left for Israel to join his family.Isak is 60 years old. He is a retired shopkeeper. He was born in Bukhara and has already left for Israel to join his family.Iosef is 30 years old. He is an electrician. He was born in Bukhara and has already left for New York via Israel to join his family.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Nataliya Popova in her house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 54 years old. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Nataliya Popova's bed in her Gazalkent house, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 54 years old. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Photograph of Nataliya Popova's father's grandmother taken in Russia in 1955. Natalia is 54 years old and lives in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents was sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Photographs of Nataliya Popova's father's grandparents when they were children, taken in Russia towards the end of the 19th century. Natalia is 54 years old and lives in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents was sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Dina Popova lives with her mother Natalia in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 18 years old. She is studying at Tashkent's college of art. Her grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Europe once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Lisa Maliyavini with her granddaughter Lisa Maliyavini and her daughter Olga Maliyavini selling their possessions in front of their house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent.Lisa Maliyavini is 76 years old. She is a retired accountant. She was sent here from the Russian Volga region by Stalin in 1939. Lisa Maliyavini is 10 years old. She is a school girl.Olga Maliyavini is 42 years old. She was an officer in the Soviet KGB, she is now an Uzbek army sergeant. Her father was also Russian, sent here by Stalin in 1937.They have left for Novgorod in Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Olga Nikolaeva and Alex Dmitriev in the house that Olga has just sold in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent.Olga Nikolaeva is 45 years old. She is a foreman at the local food canning factory. Her mother's parents came here for a better life from Russia in 1946 and her father's parents were born here. She has left for Krasnodar in Russia.Alex Dmitriev is 21 years old. He studies at Tashkent's School of Journalism. His parents are both Russian who were born here. He will leave for Moscow with his parents once he finishes his studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Riharte Kessler selling his possessions in front of his house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. He is 63 years old. He is a technician in the local marble factory. His parents were ethnic Germans from the Russian Volga region sent here by Stalin in 1941. He has left for Germany with his wife and two sons.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Zitriy and Sofiya Beridze in their Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Zitri Beridze is 82 years old. He was a truck driver.Sofia Beridze is 79 years old. She was a house wife.They are both Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They don't want to Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Muhitdin and Rashid Beridze preparing for Murat Iliyasov's (middle) wedding in front of Murat's Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Muhitdin Beridze is 23 years old. He is a vet.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Rashid Beridze is 22 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Muhitdin and Rashid Beridze during Murat Iliyasov's (middle) wedding on top of Murat's Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Muhitdin Beridze is 23 years old. He is a vet.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Rashid Beridze is 22 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Dilfuza Beridze his helped by her two sisters during her marriage to Murat Iliyasov in front his Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Dilfuza Beridze is 22 years old. She will be a house wife.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200209/08/02Irina Zaharova with Igor Rjevskiy and Sergey Gavrilin Yuryevich in Tashkent's Farovon vodka factory.Irina Zaharova is 23 years old. She is the director's secretary. Her Father is Russian and her mother is half German, half Polish. She wants to leave for Germany.Igor Rjevskyi is 41 years old. He is a truck driver. He is Russian and will leave for Russia.Sergey Gavrilin Yuryevich is 42 years old. He is a truck driver. He is Russian and does not want to leave.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200211/08/02Ravil Tukhvatulin treats Petrushin Valeriy Fedorovich following an operation to remove a lung tumor in Tashkent's Tahtapul oncology hospital.Ravil Tukhvatulin is 42 years old. He is a surgical oncologist. Stalin sent his parents here from Tatarstan in 1944. He will leave for Saint Petersburg, Russia.Petrushin Valeriy Fedorovich is 57. He is an electrician. His grandparents came here from Russia in 1944. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200211/08/02Valentina Chetverekova Konstantinova following an operation to remove a lung tumor in Tashkent's Tahtapul oncology hospital.She is 64 years old. She is an economist. She is Russian, her grandparents came from Siberia in 1945 for economic reasons. She wants to leave for Russia with her family.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Dina Djamaletdinova in Mishel Fedorachin's Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for England once she finishes her studies.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Mishel Fedorachin drawing on Dina Djamaletdinova in his Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for Europe after university.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Mishel Fedorachin makes a felt tip drawing on Dina Djamaletdinova in his Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for Europe after university.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200214/08/02Emiliya Azimova Karimovna waiting in Tashkent's Uzbekistan Sport and Health Centre massage parlor. She is 54 years old. She is head of staff at the Sports Centre. Her mother is German from the Russian Volga region sent to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1941 and her father is Uzbek. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Nurobod's Coal Power Station making power for the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Sveltana Demid in front of an inscription reading : Angren is 30 years old, in the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent. She is 21 years old. He is an accountant. Her Russian mother came from Kirgizstan in 1985 and her father's parents came here to build Angren in 1950. She does not know if she will leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Cement factory in the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200217/08/02Albina Ilyasova and Lena Tratimava in Tashkent's Valentina restaurant.Albina Ilyasöva is 20 years old. She works as a waitress whilst studying to be a police woman. Her mother is Korean and her father is Tatar, they came here together from Ukraine to study and stayed. She wants to leave for Odessa, Ukraine.Lena Tratimava is 19 years old. She works as a waitress whilst studying to be a police woman. Her mother's parents came here from Russia in 1953 and her father is an Ashkanaz Polish Jew from Ukraine whose parents were sent here by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200217/08/02Wu Janliang and Tanya Poleva in Tashkent's Billiard Klub.Wu Janliang is 55 years old. He is the director of a language institute in Peking, China.Tanya Poleva is 22 years old. She studies at Tashkent's Oriental Language Institute. All her grandparents are Russian and were born here. She does not want to leave.N°10650
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Irina Zolotareva and Anastasiya Zolotareva with Nadejda Vodotievskaya and Diana Vodotievskaya in Tashkent's Korean Zolotoe Runo restaurant.
Irina Zolotareva is 41 years old. She is a hairdresser. Her parents came from Russia. She wants to go to Moscow with Anastasiya, her 5 year old daughter.
Nadajda Vodotievskaya is 48 years old. She is a hairdresser. Her grandparents came from Russia during the 1930's. She and Diana, her 12 year old daughter, do not want to leave.

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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200219/08/02Uzbekistan's President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov in a Tashkent flat.N°10650
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20/08/02
Alexey Khegay and Kulnazar Saribaev in a Yak-40 aeroplane between Tashkent and Nukus.
Alexey Khegay is 19 years old. He is a telecommunications student in Tashkent. His Korean grandparents were sent to Nukus in Karakalpakstan from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. He will leave Nukus definitively for Tashkent once he finishes his studies.
Kulnazar Saribaev is 47 years old. He is a police captain in charge of Nukus's immigration and visa department (OVIR). His father is Uzbek and his mother is Karakalpak. He wants to leave Nukus for Tashkent.
On arrival at Nukus' airport I was arrested and spent a brief spell in prison, I got out by paying a heavy bribe and had to leave the area within 24 hours.

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21/08/02
Sergey Bakaushin Lipatovich and his wife Maria Bakaushina Stepanova with other sailors pictured during the 1950s and 1960s, in Muynak harbor town on the Aral Sea (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan).
Sergey Bakaushin Lipatovich is 68 years old. He was Muynak's port captain until the port moved westwards to the Sarikamish Lake in 1983. His grandfather was exiled here by the Tsar at the end of the 19th century, his father was sent here by Stalin in 1932. Maria Bakaushina Stepanova is 70 years old. She worked in one of Muynak's five fish canning factories. Her parents were sent here from Russia by Stalin in 1931.
They have left for Mordoviya, Russia.

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Beached fishing boat in what was previously Muynak harbor town's port. (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan).

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Nikolay Gilyoav in Muynak harbor town's grocery shop (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan). He is 50 years old. He is unemployed and has spent 23 years in Karakalpakstan's Turtkul prison. His father kidnapped his mother and to escape punishment he took her from Russia to Muynak in 1949. He wants to leave, but has nowhere to go.

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25/08/02
Guzel Fazalova with Raylon Moisseeva and her daughter Olga Moisseeva waiting in Tashkent's North Station. Guzel Fazalova is seeing off her friend Olga Moisseeva who is leaving Uzbekistan definitively on the eight o'clock evening train to Moscow.
Guzel Fazalova is 13 years. She is a school girl. Here parents were sent here from Tatarstan. She will leave for Tatarstan with her family as soon as her brother finishes his military service.
Raylon Moisseeva is 33 years old. She is a cook. Her mother is Uzbek and her father is Tatar. She will leave for Tatarstan in three months to join her daughter and husband.
Olga Moisseeva is 13 years old. She is a school girl. Her father's grandparents were sent her from Russia in 1933. She has left for Moscow, Russia.


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26/08/02
Dilbara Asanovna in Tashkent's Train Museum's entry kiosk. She is 60 years old. She is a nurse and has worked as a cashier in the train museum for 7 years. She was sent here with her parents from Russia by Stalin in 1954. She wants to leave for Russia.

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Gavrega Natalia Stepanovna dans son appartement à Angren. Elle a 38 ans. Elle est professeur d'anglais dans une lycée d'Angren. Ses parents sont venus à Angren de la Russie en 1950 pour construire la ville. Elle veut partir en Russie. 16/08/02


© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200229/07/02Iulia Muza in Tashkent's Greek Community Centre. She is 19 years old. She is half Russian, half Greek and studies English and German at Tashkent's Pedagogical University. Her father's parents came here in 1949 following the communists' defeat in the Greek civil war. She will leave for Athens, Greece once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200229/07/02Alexandra Baclanova in Tashkent's Greek Community Centre with a painting depicting communists during the Greek civil war. She is 52 years old. She is Greek and works as the Centre's care taker. Her parents came here in 1949 following the communists' defeat in the Greek civil war. She wants to leave for Greece, but no longer has contact with her family there.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200230/07/02Dilya Mukhamedjanova is a chemical analyst teaching at Tashkent's Science Institute. She is 60 years old. She is Russian, her parents were sent here by Stalin. She will leave to join her children and grandchildren living in Russia. N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200201/08/02Pak Nadejda Nikolaevna in Tashkent's Almazar Street Telephone Exchange. She is 74 years old. She is Korean, her father was sent here from the Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave to join family members in Almata, Kazakhstan.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Road in Tashkent's town centre leading to Uzbekistan's President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov's private residence. The inscription on the bridge reads : The next generation will receive this land.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Nickolay Savinikh is a blacksmith working in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 47 years old. His parents came from Russia during the 1940's famine in Moscow. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Lubov Rascheskina Ivanovna in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. She is 54 years old. She is a barrister but cleans in the factory during the day. Her parents were Russians sent to Kirgizstan by Stalin in the 1946, they then came to Uzbekistan in the late 1960s. She wants to leave for Moscow.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Viktor Viktorovich in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 17 years old. His mother is Uzbek and his father is Ukrainian, he is still at high school but he works in the factory during the holidays. He will leave for Kiev, Ukraine once he finishes school.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Alexandr Chekhovskiy Ivanovich is an industrial designer working in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines. He is 53 years old. He was born in Russia, his mother is half Polish, half Russian and his father is Russian. He came to work in Uzbekistan in 1984. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200202/08/02Machine workers in the canteen in the section of Tashkent's old shoe factory reconverted to make food processing machines.Sergey Ni works on the lathe. He is 45 years old. He is Korean. He doesn't want to leave.Khamski Xanskinch is a drill operator. He is 27 years old. His parents were sent here from the Ukraine in the 1950's by Stalin. He will leave for Odessa, Ukraine in four months.Yetgem Ebremil is a blacksmith. He is 54 years old. His parents came here from Tatarstan when he was 3 years old. He wants to leave for Tatarstan.Alexandr Galinov Rifkatovich is an apprentice in the factory during his school holidays. He is 15 years old. He is Tatar, both his parents were born here. He wants to leave for Russia once he finishes school.Famil Mingarinov is a mechanic. He is 53 years old. He came with his parents from Tatarstan, sent by the Soviet authorities to rebuild Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake. He wants to leave for Tatarstan.Kirill Galimov is a mechanical engineer. He is  51 years old. He is Tatar. He has already left for Russia.Takhir Azizov Tolipovich is a machine operator. He is 50 years old. He is Tajik, he was born in Tashkent and he does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02David Silagava (standing on the table) owns Tashkent's Genatsvale restaurant which specialises in Georgian food. He is 35 years old. Victorya Bodua is David Silagava's wife. She is a primary school teacher and cook. She is 29 years old. Both Victorya's and David's parents came from Georgia, sent by the Soviet authorities to rebuild Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake. They  want to leave for Georgia are waiting for the economic and political situation there to improve.Vildan Zaidov works in the restaurant. He is 27 years old. He is Tatar, his parents came here in the 1967. He wants to leave for New York.Vyacheslav Morozov Alexandrovich works in the restaurant. He is 25 years old. His  Russian parents were born here. He wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02The Khamid Olimdjon monument and Business Centre with flats for sale above it in Tashkent's town centre.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200203/08/02Lena Olegovna in Tashkent's Gifts of Mother Nature wine shop owned by President Karimov's eldest daughter, Lola Karimova. Lena is 24 years old. She is a Russian and English translator. Her mother is half Russian, half Tatar and her father is half Russian, half Uzbek. She wants to leave for Norway.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Elena Nikitina, Tatyana Chelovanova, Nastya Laxbeonova and Kristina Chagaeva in Tashkent's Catholic Church's crypt.Elena Nikitina is 22 years old. She studies journalism in Tashkent's school of journalism. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She has already left for Warsaw, Poland.Tatyana Chelovanova is 24 years old. She is a Russian and English translator. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave for Poland.Nastya Laxbeonova, 11 years old, school girl, Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She will to leave for Poland once she finishes her studies.Kristina Chagaeva, 17 years old studying Russian and English translation in Tashkent's Central University. Her grandparents are ethnic poles sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937 and 1953. She will leave for Poland once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02300 year old Polish icon in Nikitina Galina Mikhaylovna's house in Tashkent's town centre. She is 42 years old. She is a florist designer. Her parents are ethnic poles whose grandparents were sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Amelia Wolfhart in her sitting room. She is 45 years old. She is German and teaches at Tashkent's Institute of History. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine sent by Stalin to a Gulag in Siberia. They came to Uzbekistan in 1964 as they were forbidden to return to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities. She wants to leave but has nowhere to go.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Amelia Wolfhart's mother. Amelia Wolfhart is 45 years old. She is German and teaches at Tashkent's Science Institute. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine sent by Stalin to a Gulag in Siberia. They came to Uzbekistan in 1964 as they were forbidden to return to Ukraine by the Soviet authorities. She wants to leave but has nowhere to go.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Anastasya Ni is 2 years old sitting with her great grandmother Elestaveta Kan who is 77 years old, in the family flat in Tashkent. Elestaveta Kan was sent to Uzbekistan with her Korean parents from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200204/08/02Larisa Kim in her flat in Tashkent. She is 43 years old. She is a radiologist in Tashkent's Central Hospital. Her Korean parents were sent to Uzbekistan from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200205/08/02The inscription on this building (Gulla Yashna Mustaqil Ozbekiston!) in Tashkent's town centre reads : Let  independent Uzbekistan flourish!N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200205/08/02The inscription on this bill board (Har doim Mustaqil!) in Tashkent's town centre reads : Let it always be Independence!N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200206/08/02Sholom, Isak and Iosef in Tashkent's Bukhara Synagogue.Sholom is 62 years old. He is a retired cobbler. He was born in Bukhara and he has already left for Israel to join his family.Isak is 60 years old. He is a retired shopkeeper. He was born in Bukhara and has already left for Israel to join his family.Iosef is 30 years old. He is an electrician. He was born in Bukhara and has already left for New York via Israel to join his family.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Nataliya Popova in her house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 54 years old. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Nataliya Popova's bed in her Gazalkent house, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 54 years old. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Photograph of Nataliya Popova's father's grandmother taken in Russia in 1955. Natalia is 54 years old and lives in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents was sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Photographs of Nataliya Popova's father's grandparents when they were children, taken in Russia towards the end of the 19th century. Natalia is 54 years old and lives in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is a retired librarian. Her Russian and Bielorussian grandparents was sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Dina Popova lives with her mother Natalia in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. She is 18 years old. She is studying at Tashkent's college of art. Her grandparents were sent here by Stalin in 1934. She wants to leave for Europe once she finishes her studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Lisa Maliyavini with her granddaughter Lisa Maliyavini and her daughter Olga Maliyavini selling their possessions in front of their house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent.Lisa Maliyavini is 76 years old. She is a retired accountant. She was sent here from the Russian Volga region by Stalin in 1939. Lisa Maliyavini is 10 years old. She is a school girl.Olga Maliyavini is 42 years old. She was an officer in the Soviet KGB, she is now an Uzbek army sergeant. Her father was also Russian, sent here by Stalin in 1937.They have left for Novgorod in Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Olga Nikolaeva and Alex Dmitriev in the house that Olga has just sold in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent.Olga Nikolaeva is 45 years old. She is a foreman at the local food canning factory. Her mother's parents came here for a better life from Russia in 1946 and her father's parents were born here. She has left for Krasnodar in Russia.Alex Dmitriev is 21 years old. He studies at Tashkent's School of Journalism. His parents are both Russian who were born here. He will leave for Moscow with his parents once he finishes his studies.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200207/08/02Riharte Kessler selling his possessions in front of his house in Gazalkent, 60 kilometres north of Tashkent. He is 63 years old. He is a technician in the local marble factory. His parents were ethnic Germans from the Russian Volga region sent here by Stalin in 1941. He has left for Germany with his wife and two sons.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Zitriy and Sofiya Beridze in their Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Zitri Beridze is 82 years old. He was a truck driver.Sofia Beridze is 79 years old. She was a house wife.They are both Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They don't want to Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Muhitdin and Rashid Beridze preparing for Murat Iliyasov's (middle) wedding in front of Murat's Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Muhitdin Beridze is 23 years old. He is a vet.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Rashid Beridze is 22 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Muhitdin and Rashid Beridze during Murat Iliyasov's (middle) wedding on top of Murat's Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Muhitdin Beridze is 23 years old. He is a vet.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Rashid Beridze is 22 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200208/08/02Dilfuza Beridze his helped by her two sisters during her marriage to Murat Iliyasov in front his Sindarabad Kolkhoz home in the Sirdariya region, 100 kilometres south of Tashkent.Dilfuza Beridze is 22 years old. She will be a house wife.Murat Iliyasov is 25 years old. He is a farmer.Their grandparents are Meskhet Turks from Georgia sent here by Stalin in 1944. They want to leave for Georgia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200209/08/02Irina Zaharova with Igor Rjevskiy and Sergey Gavrilin Yuryevich in Tashkent's Farovon vodka factory.Irina Zaharova is 23 years old. She is the director's secretary. Her Father is Russian and her mother is half German, half Polish. She wants to leave for Germany.Igor Rjevskyi is 41 years old. He is a truck driver. He is Russian and will leave for Russia.Sergey Gavrilin Yuryevich is 42 years old. He is a truck driver. He is Russian and does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200209/08/02The vodka analysis laboratory in Tashkent's Farovon vodka factory.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200211/08/02Ravil Tukhvatulin treats Petrushin Valeriy Fedorovich following an operation to remove a lung tumor in Tashkent's Tahtapul oncology hospital.Ravil Tukhvatulin is 42 years old. He is a surgical oncologist. Stalin sent his parents here from Tatarstan in 1944. He will leave for Saint Petersburg, Russia.Petrushin Valeriy Fedorovich is 57. He is an electrician. His grandparents came here from Russia in 1944. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200211/08/02Valentina Chetverekova Konstantinova following an operation to remove a lung tumor in Tashkent's Tahtapul oncology hospital.She is 64 years old. She is an economist. She is Russian, her grandparents came from Siberia in 1945 for economic reasons. She wants to leave for Russia with her family.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Dina Djamaletdinova in Mishel Fedorachin's Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for England once she finishes her studies.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Mishel Fedorachin drawing on Dina Djamaletdinova in his Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for Europe after university.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200213/08/02Mishel Fedorachin makes a felt tip drawing on Dina Djamaletdinova in his Tashkent flat.Dina Djamaletdinova is 19 years old. She studies economics at Tashkent's Ulukbek University. Her father is Uzbek and her mother is half Ukrainian, half Tatar. She will leave for Europe after university.Mishel Fedorachin is 33 years old. He is a body artist. His grandparents came from Russia in the 1940s. He does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200214/08/02Emiliya Azimova Karimovna waiting in Tashkent's Uzbekistan Sport and Health Centre massage parlor. She is 54 years old. She is head of staff at the Sports Centre. Her mother is German from the Russian Volga region sent to Kazakhstan by Stalin in 1941 and her father is Uzbek. She does not want to leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Nurobod's Coal Power Station making power for the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent.N°10650
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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Sveltana Demid in front of an inscription reading : Angren is 30 years old, in the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent. She is 21 years old. He is an accountant. Her Russian mother came from Kirgizstan in 1985 and her father's parents came here to build Angren in 1950. She does not know if she will leave.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200216/08/02Cement factory in the mining town of Angren, 60 kilometres east of Tashkent.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200217/08/02Albina Ilyasova and Lena Tratimava in Tashkent's Valentina restaurant.Albina Ilyasöva is 20 years old. She works as a waitress whilst studying to be a police woman. Her mother is Korean and her father is Tatar, they came here together from Ukraine to study and stayed. She wants to leave for Odessa, Ukraine.Lena Tratimava is 19 years old. She works as a waitress whilst studying to be a police woman. Her mother's parents came here from Russia in 1953 and her father is an Ashkanaz Polish Jew from Ukraine whose parents were sent here by Stalin in 1937. She wants to leave for Russia.N°10650
© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200217/08/02Wu Janliang and Tanya Poleva in Tashkent's Billiard Klub.Wu Janliang is 55 years old. He is the director of a language institute in Peking, China.Tanya Poleva is 22 years old. She studies at Tashkent's Oriental Language Institute. All her grandparents are Russian and were born here. She does not want to leave.N°10650
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Irina Zolotareva and Anastasiya Zolotareva with Nadejda Vodotievskaya and Diana Vodotievskaya in Tashkent's Korean Zolotoe Runo restaurant.
Irina Zolotareva is 41 years old. She is a hairdresser. Her parents came from Russia. She wants to go to Moscow with Anastasiya, her 5 year old daughter.
Nadajda Vodotievskaya is 48 years old. She is a hairdresser. Her grandparents came from Russia during the 1930's. She and Diana, her 12 year old daughter, do not want to leave.

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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VUHOME AND AWAYOUZBEKISTAN, 200219/08/02Uzbekistan's President Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov in a Tashkent flat.N°10650
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20/08/02
Alexey Khegay and Kulnazar Saribaev in a Yak-40 aeroplane between Tashkent and Nukus.
Alexey Khegay is 19 years old. He is a telecommunications student in Tashkent. His Korean grandparents were sent to Nukus in Karakalpakstan from the Russian / Chinese border by Stalin in 1937. He will leave Nukus definitively for Tashkent once he finishes his studies.
Kulnazar Saribaev is 47 years old. He is a police captain in charge of Nukus's immigration and visa department (OVIR). His father is Uzbek and his mother is Karakalpak. He wants to leave Nukus for Tashkent.
On arrival at Nukus' airport I was arrested and spent a brief spell in prison, I got out by paying a heavy bribe and had to leave the area within 24 hours.

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21/08/02
Sergey Bakaushin Lipatovich and his wife Maria Bakaushina Stepanova with other sailors pictured during the 1950s and 1960s, in Muynak harbor town on the Aral Sea (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan).
Sergey Bakaushin Lipatovich is 68 years old. He was Muynak's port captain until the port moved westwards to the Sarikamish Lake in 1983. His grandfather was exiled here by the Tsar at the end of the 19th century, his father was sent here by Stalin in 1932. Maria Bakaushina Stepanova is 70 years old. She worked in one of Muynak's five fish canning factories. Her parents were sent here from Russia by Stalin in 1931.
They have left for Mordoviya, Russia.

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22/08/02
Beached fishing boat in what was previously Muynak harbor town's port. (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan).

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22/08/02
Nikolay Gilyoav in Muynak harbor town's grocery shop (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan). He is 50 years old. He is unemployed and has spent 23 years in Karakalpakstan's Turtkul prison. His father kidnapped his mother and to escape punishment he took her from Russia to Muynak in 1949. He wants to leave, but has nowhere to go.

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25/08/02
Guzel Fazalova with Raylon Moisseeva and her daughter Olga Moisseeva waiting in Tashkent's North Station. Guzel Fazalova is seeing off her friend Olga Moisseeva who is leaving Uzbekistan definitively on the eight o'clock evening train to Moscow.
Guzel Fazalova is 13 years. She is a school girl. Here parents were sent here from Tatarstan. She will leave for Tatarstan with her family as soon as her brother finishes his military service.
Raylon Moisseeva is 33 years old. She is a cook. Her mother is Uzbek and her father is Tatar. She will leave for Tatarstan in three months to join her daughter and husband.
Olga Moisseeva is 13 years old. She is a school girl. Her father's grandparents were sent her from Russia in 1933. She has left for Moscow, Russia.


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26/08/02
Dilbara Asanovna in Tashkent's Train Museum's entry kiosk. She is 60 years old. She is a nurse and has worked as a cashier in the train museum for 7 years. She was sent here with her parents from Russia by Stalin in 1954. She wants to leave for Russia.

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Gavrega Natalia Stepanovna dans son appartement à Angren. Elle a 38 ans. Elle est professeur d'anglais dans une lycée d'Angren. Ses parents sont venus à Angren de la Russie en 1950 pour construire la ville. Elle veut partir en Russie. 16/08/02


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