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© RIP HOPKINS / AGENCE VU HOME AND AWAY OUZBEKISTAN, 2002 21/08/02 Maria Bakaushina Stepanova with her neighbors Alexandr Anyutin and Ekaterina Parshukova Ivanovna in front of Maria's house in what used to be Muynak harbor town on the Aral Sea (Northwest Uzbekistan in the Karakalpakstan Republic, which borders Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan). Nobody wants to buy the house in which Maria has lived in all her life, so she is tearing it down to sell it off piece by piece. Maria Bakaushina Stepanova is 70 years old. She worked in one of Muynak's five fish canning factories. Her parents were sent here from Russia by Stalin in 1931. She has left for Mordoviya, Russia. Alexandr Anyutin is 47 years old. He is a history teacher in the local high school. His father was sent here from Ukraine in 1927, his mother was sent here from Tatarstan by Stalin in 1936. He has left for Ukraine. Ekaterina Parshukova Ivanovna is 74 years old. She is a retired Sanitation Ward cleaner in Muynak's hospital. She came here from Russia with her parents when she was four years old. She would like to leave, but has no children to go to. N¡10650 (KEYSTONE/Agence VU/)