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keywords:
revolution of 1915 -government transfer from St.
Petersburg to Moscow (1918) - Nomenclatura building
- repression.
synthesis:
1915 revolution: father stabbed, family evacuated from Baku,
life at Kieslar - mother died of typhus - foster home - from 1919,
life with brothers - University at Moscow: studies electronics -
marriage with an Armenian man- Tamara becomes an electricity expert and
controls Moscow's energetic organization. - In 1918 Lenin transfers
the government seat from St. Petersburg to Moscow,
where a building of 505 apartments is built to house the
country's leaders - Tamara lives there ever since 1931
and she is a witness of 70 years of the life in the building -
she
gets nominated as a Minister - Stalin's repression - arrests in the
residence building (The Nomenclature Building): every tenant was under
governamental control - during the war Tamara controls the entire
energetic organization of the military aviation factory- after she
retires, she gets a position as the director of the office of
complaints for the building: reveals scandals on the insuffieciency of bathrooms and
kitchens inside the building and creates a project to divide every
partment into two. - During the war the building is almost empty, but
it is one of the few left with hot water. Tamara shows a book with the
testiomials of those who have lived in the building . Pictures and
paintings.
subject
biography:
Born on 1908 at Baku. During the revolution of 1915 her father gets
stabbed and Tamara, along with her three brothers, her mother and grandmother, gets
evacuated. They move to Kieslar, where the entire family works. The mother gets sick with typhus and dies: Tamara and
her brothers go to a foster home in Kislovosk.
In 1919 the director entrusts the family to the older brother who is
affiliated with the Party. The older brother gets transfered to Central
Asia for work reasons, but Tamara remains in Moscow where she begins to
go to the University (studies electical engineering). In 1924 she finishes her
studies and marries an Armenian man. In 1928 the older brother gets
elected as a government member and in 1931 he is given a house to live
with his wife, Tamara and her son. In 1934 the brother dies during a
surgery and the apartment gets split into two, one for Tamara and her
son, and the other for her sister-in-law. From then on, Tamara has
always lived inside the Nomenclature building at Moscow. She
becomes an expert on the electrical organization in Moscow; during the
war she upholds an important position as the Chief of the energetical
department of a military aviation factory. Sequently she gets
nominated as a Minister. When she retires, she becomes responsible for
the office of complaints in the buikding. She currently lives in
Moscow, at the same building.
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DOCUMENTS:
Book of Memoirs
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