#AP30/People. Saifiddin Karaev: “Asia-Plus is a school of life”
The most interesting stories about their work and life are told by our seasoned and most experienced colleagues. In our opinion, journalist Saifiddin Karaev creates the most heartfelt and lively reports, reading which you feel inside his articles, a witness to these stories, rather than just a reader on the other side of the screen.
Today in the #AP30/People section, the hero of the «Asia-Plus» publication will be himself.
Childhood in a remote placeSaifiddin is from Rehar, born in the mountainous village of Khanaka — one of the most remote in this area. He knows about the hardships of rural life from his own experience. Perhaps that is why Saifiddin manages to write such vivid articles about the difficulties of dehkans and ordinary Tajik people.
«In my childhood, helicopters flew for sick people due to the lack of roads. At that time, communication with the district center almost ceased in winter, unlike today.
I finished eight years of school in my village. There were 10 students in my class. In the 9th-10th grades, I studied in a neighboring village. In bad weather, it was impossible to attend school — natural conditions did not allow it. However, despite this, the teaching was better than in city schools,» says Saifiddin Karaev.
In the 8th grade, he lost his mother and grew up almost as an orphan. His father was a teacher and barely made ends meet, especially since Saifiddin was not the only child in the family.
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And he started working almost from the first days of study: in the local canteen, he peeled vegetables, cut meat, prepared ingredients, washed dishes, and on weekends transported scarce goods from Dushanbe to villages from Gissar to Reghar for sale (Czech shoes, fabrics, shirts, etc.).
Soon, for good studies, Saifiddin began receiving an increased scholarship. This is how he earned money for living.
«In total, I earned 150-200 rubles. Sometimes I gave 100-150 rubles to my father so that he could feed my younger brothers and sisters. I remember how he once cried…» recalls the journalist.
He also managed to serve in the army — in 1986 in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. After graduating from the institute, he was offered to enter graduate school, but the civil war began, and everything went differently…
Today, Saifiddin is a happy father of three children and a grandfather of five grandchildren. But the path to happiness was quite difficult.
Sewed bags, chopped wood, and proofread textsIn the 90s, Saifiddin Karaev earned money in various ways to feed his family. He worked for a year as a teacher in a school without a salary, exchanged currency at the market, crafted cages, sieves, sewed bags, chopped wood, hauled coal, worked in the field, and more. He even tried his hand at trading but soon realized it wasn’t his forte.
«I had to leave school and the market and go to the aluminum plant. I didn’t have a working profession, and I couldn’t find a suitable job in any workshop. In the personnel department, they offered me a position as a proofreader for the plant’s multi-circulation newspaper ‘Aluminum of Tajikistan.’ We took texts to the printing house, where they cast lines from molten metal. Then they were laid out on metal forms and given to us as proofs. Proofreading required careful checking of the text, including typesetting errors.
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Today in the #AP30/People section, the hero of the «Asia-Plus» publication will be himself.
Childhood in a remote placeSaifiddin is from Rehar, born in the mountainous village of Khanaka — one of the most remote in this area. He knows about the hardships of rural life from his own experience. Perhaps that is why Saifiddin manages to write such vivid articles about the difficulties of dehkans and ordinary Tajik people.
«In my childhood, helicopters flew for sick people due to the lack of roads. At that time, communication with the district center almost ceased in winter, unlike today.
I finished eight years of school in my village. There were 10 students in my class. In the 9th-10th grades, I studied in a neighboring village. In bad weather, it was impossible to attend school — natural conditions did not allow it. However, despite this, the teaching was better than in city schools,» says Saifiddin Karaev.
In the 8th grade, he lost his mother and grew up almost as an orphan. His father was a teacher and barely made ends meet, especially since Saifiddin was not the only child in the family.
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«To feed ourselves, we herded cows, sowed wheat. So, from childhood, I was accustomed to hard physical labor,» shares the journalist.After finishing school, he wanted to enter the journalism faculty, but had to take exams for the Russian philology faculty at the A.S. Pushkin Institute. And when he passed the exams and was admitted, his father stated that there was no money for his son’s education and suggested returning to the village to work as a pioneer leader in the local school. But young Saifiddin then decided that he would try to «survive in Dushanbe.»
And he started working almost from the first days of study: in the local canteen, he peeled vegetables, cut meat, prepared ingredients, washed dishes, and on weekends transported scarce goods from Dushanbe to villages from Gissar to Reghar for sale (Czech shoes, fabrics, shirts, etc.).
Soon, for good studies, Saifiddin began receiving an increased scholarship. This is how he earned money for living.
«In total, I earned 150-200 rubles. Sometimes I gave 100-150 rubles to my father so that he could feed my younger brothers and sisters. I remember how he once cried…» recalls the journalist.
He also managed to serve in the army — in 1986 in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. After graduating from the institute, he was offered to enter graduate school, but the civil war began, and everything went differently…
Today, Saifiddin is a happy father of three children and a grandfather of five grandchildren. But the path to happiness was quite difficult.
Sewed bags, chopped wood, and proofread textsIn the 90s, Saifiddin Karaev earned money in various ways to feed his family. He worked for a year as a teacher in a school without a salary, exchanged currency at the market, crafted cages, sieves, sewed bags, chopped wood, hauled coal, worked in the field, and more. He even tried his hand at trading but soon realized it wasn’t his forte.
«I had to leave school and the market and go to the aluminum plant. I didn’t have a working profession, and I couldn’t find a suitable job in any workshop. In the personnel department, they offered me a position as a proofreader for the plant’s multi-circulation newspaper ‘Aluminum of Tajikistan.’ We took texts to the printing house, where they cast lines from molten metal. Then they were laid out on metal forms and given to us as proofs. Proofreading required careful checking of the text, including typesetting errors.
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They paid the smallest salary. It was hard work — I always smelled of printing ink. I ruined a dozen shirts. At the same time, the editor made me write news and articles for the newspaper. It was the most boring job — constantly writing speeches on behalf of bosses and foremen, holiday greetings, template articles about production leaders,« recalls Saifiddin.
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