It is difficult to break the stereotype - Tajiks associate among Russians with migrant workers, street cleaners, traders in stalls, car mechanics and posters. In Russia, they live in dilapidated dormitories, as well as in cramped rented apartments, huddling there for 70-100 people.
But, transported to hot Tajikistan, you plunge into a completely different world.
And this is how the family of the worker Davladbek lives, who has been working as a welder at the Yekaterinburg construction site for 9 months of the year and sends earnings to his homeland so that the family can exist for something. A blogger traveler talks about his life and life at home.
Mountain village
The only local store sells mattresses, carpets, toothpaste, washing powder. But there is no water.
The owner Davladbek was very hospitable, invited him to tea and even offered to spend the night.
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Guests are dear
It turns out that in Russia, Tajiks are not at all the same as in their own country. In a foreign land they are quiet and seem completely clogged, and in Tajikistan they consider it their duty to meet the guest properly, feed him and shelter.
Each house is equipped with a large room "Mehmonhona" - especially for receiving guests, weddings and family parties.
It is customary to lay "dostarkhan" on the floor - a tablecloth. Tea plays a very important role in the process of eating, the younger man pours it. They drink from the bowls, which should be taken with the right hand (the left one should be kept on the right side of the chest). The first bowl is for the spillmer. Food in everyday life is taken first by the senior member of the family, and if a guest is in the house, then this is his privilege.
Tajiks are sitting on the floor on beautiful mattresses and carpets stuffed with cotton or cotton - they are called kurpuchi. It is not allowed to sit with the legs extended forward or to the side. It is indecent and lying.
Their life
Tajik families are usually large - women give birth to five to six children, who are brought up in strict obedience and submission to parents and elders.
Girls in villages do not finish more than 8 classes, they do not need education, their destiny is to get married. After the wedding, the first 6 months, the young wife does not leave her husband’s house and does not visit her parents.
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Employment problems
In the mountain villages of Tajikistan, there is almost no work for money. The salaries of doctors and teachers are ridiculous. Everyone is trying to have their own farm and garden, so as not to simply starve.
In 2014, Davladbek’s salary was about 25, 000 rubles, of which 19, 000 he spent on housing, travel and food. Two hundred dollars a month a man sent to Tajikistan to his family, this, in principle, was enough for them to buy everything they needed that could not be produced independently in the village.
