The most famous grandmother of Ufa. This is the second unofficial name for Albina Khazhimovna. "At the age of 72 she started dancing, at the age of 78 she went ice skating and dived in an ice hole. At the age 79 she fulfilled the TRP standards and even received a golden insignia", - in a such manner she is represented by all media. The main merit of Albina Apai is not only this.
Thanks to Albina Iskhakova the Bashkir breastplate returned to modern life: as a stylised jewellery or prints on clothes. Even at the beginning of the 2000s, Albina apai attended concerts and other events wearing her original monisto and brought a few more bibs with her. She gave them to try on, she wanted to show what the beauty and what the big history was fading. Albina Apai did her best, she struggled to popularize the national identity, when it was first forbidden, and then forgotten. It is worth noting that the fate of Albina Apay is no less complicated than the fate of monisto. |
Thanks to Albina Iskhakova the Bashkir breastplate returned to modern life: as a stylised jewellery or prints on clothes. Even at the beginning of the 2000s, Albina apai attended concerts and other events wearing her original monisto and brought a few more bibs with her. She gave them to try on, she wanted to show what the beauty and what the big history was fading. Albina Apai did her best, she struggled to popularize the national identity, when it was first forbidden, and then forgotten. It is worth noting that the fate of Albina Apay is no less complicated than the fate of monisto.
Albina Iskhakova is rightfully the most famous grandmother of Ufa. She was brought up in an orphanage, went in for skiing, volleyball, athletics and was even a champion of Bashkortostan and Russia in gymnastics. She committed to her classmate Fanis, also brought up in a orphanage. All their life they worked together on gas pipelines.
Albina Apai tried to convey that the breastplate can be a stylish and worthy element of the look. Monisto can exquisitely tell about the culture and the history of the owner.
Albina Iskhakova has a large collection of bibs, which in 2017 she introduced at her personal exhibition in Ufa. Her collection has even ancient breastplates bought from the village inhabitants during her travels. Also Albina Iskhakova embroiders monisto with her own hands according to all the canons of the bibs of the Bashkir tribes.
Albina Khazhimovna had a big dream: to bring her bibs collection to Moscow and dance on the Red Square. Her dream came true.
Together with the Moscow ensemble "Ak Tirma" Albina Apai danced in front of the Kremlin. The guests of the city stopped and took pictures. The most famous grandmother of Ufa instantly became famous in a large megapolis. Immediately people were found ready to help make the cherished dream of Albina Khazhimovna, which she did not voice.
To show her monisto collection to Parisians and to dance in front of the Eiffel Tower - that is she was dreaming of Albina Apai would like to go to the country ruling the fashions, to the country glorified the Bashkirs, calling them "northern cupids." |
To show her monisto collection to Parisians and to dance in front of the Eiffel Tower - that is she was dreaming of Albina Apai would like to go to the country ruling the fashions, to the country glorified the Bashkirs, calling them "northern cupids."