Danara Ungarlinova, About Myself and My Family

• Main Author: Terbish, Baasanjav
• Other Authors: Churyumova, Elvira, Koldaev, Tseren, Korneev, Gennadiy, Bembeev, Aleksandr
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: Russian
• Published: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge 2018
• Subjects: Autobiography; family; exile; education; Baldwin; Dombra; Dun; Freed; Komsomolskiy; Zubova; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/296331; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.43375

Danara talks about herself and her family. I grew up in a close-knit family. My mother gave birth to 12 children, only 4 survived. I was born in 1934, and my siblings were born in Siberia. In Kalmykia my father worked at the newspaper Khalmg Unn. My mother was musical, she played the Saratov accordi...