THE PLACE PORTRAIT - TSCHINAS

ISMAIL HAIDAROV AND MARINA SARKISSJAN

Translated from Russian to German to English
Thanks to Irina Kurtischwilli





Place
Tschinas, region of Taschkent


Location
"Kischlak" (small village) named "Jalamus"


Local time of recording
03.00 p.m.


Camera person
Ismail Haidarov


Other participating people (from left)
Ismail Haidarov, cameraman Uzbekistan TV
Marina Sarkissjan, editor Uzbekistan TV
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Description of the recording place
The location of recording was choosen in the district Tschinas in the region Taschkent. The city Tschinkent, the earliest name is Tschinatschkent (= Chinese town) and is connected with the name of China. There are some scientific research from three Archaeologists named Masson, Gregorieva and Usmanova. The town was founded in the 6. and 7. Century, and in the Middle Ages it was a central place on the river Sirdaria, where caravans came along the silkroute from China to Rome. In the 10. Century the town was very big and a borderland between agricultural and stock-farming regions. But the historians notice that the population in the 12. Century already lived in tents. This tents give a reference that stock-farming was settled there. And even today the region Tschinas is still a stock-farming region
A lof of silver coins were found here from the 10. Century (the greatest finding was about 13 kilo). Tschinatschkent was completely destroyed at the time of the Mongols and never rebuilt. The region Tschinas has about 100.000 inhabitants.
Our camera was set up at the roof of a house in "Kischlak Jalamus" (the small village named Jalamus), a railway line passes the town Tschinas in the South direction and a highway in the direction to Samarkand. At the hoizontal line of the recording the ground of Irak and Afghanistan beginns


Description of the location
The object is the roof of a house, in opposite to a farm, because we should show the life in a village in Tschinas. On the street in the background is a railway line


What is special to the choosen location
The main thing is the life in a small village


What does the recording show
This day the "Kolchosniki" workers of the kolkhoz have cleaned up their farm, taken a rest and made a rest


What can be heard
Here you can hear different noise, cows low, sheeps, birds singing, the noise of cars and trains


What happend at your location on the 9th of September
Life was as usual


What happend in your country on the 9th of September
This day is the closing ot the Central Asian Games, five republics took part, Kasachstan, Turkmenistan, Kirkistan, Tadschikistan and Uzbekistan


Personal Commentary
As we got the instruction very late, we had to do the recording at this location, which does not show a lot of Uzbekistan. We should have done the recording in the "pearl" town of Uzbekistan, Samarkand