Fatima Gadzhikurbanova Biography

Pugacheva sang “Kanathodka”, and a very spectacular long -haired circusage walked along the rope. My father told me, “Look, this is our Dagestan canine, from Tsovrak.” So, from my father, I first learned about Fatima Gadzhikurbanova. Fatima is the 6th daughter of Yaragi Gadzhikurbanov-People's Artist of the Russian Federation, the founder of the world-famous gumboxes "Tsovkra".

Facial from Yaragi Hajikurbanov from early childhood, seven of his daughters performed. The participation of seven sisters gave the number an unforgettable effect. But in the year the artists crashed. Alexander fell into a coma for 13 years, and Fatima left the circus to nurse him. All these years, she dreamed of returning to the arena, but she worked as a nanny, then a cleaner, then a seller.

During this time, not a single circus artist was able to repeat that number because of his complexity. Now, after the death of her husband, Fatima Gadzhikurbanova decided to revive this number. She, as before, works without insurance, in his free time, the time teaches children to the skill of the Canatcan and just answers the question of the secret of success - the most important thing is never to look down.

Based on materials from the site www. Look: it goes on the rope ... "The circus is a zone of special risk, it is not without reason to move around the audience to move around the hall: the slightest accident may affect the success of performing a trick or element. But you completely forget about this when the Covences Mednikovs go to the arena. Their prima - the legend of the Soviet and Russian circus, Fatima Gadzhikurbanov - slides so fearlessly and gracefully along this thin rope at a dizzying height, which it seems that there is nothing easier.

And with each new passage of artists you understand that indeed, the previous one was not the most difficult. But soon you forget about it, but you simply enjoy the beauty and debuggishness of the actions of the gapers. She met her husband Alexander Fatima as an artist of the Soyuzgospirirk, it was with him that her independent work began without the leadership of her father. And before that, her touring life took place in the family program, where all seven sisters, and she was the penultimate birth, were excellent canor -landers.

In the years, the time was hungry, the mother had ten children, their father died. She let him go to free bread, and the artists, apparently, saw his abilities in him, and warmed him. By the age of 16, he was celebrated in Kyiv and invited officially to work as an artist of the circus. The circus for him has become a house for life, and, accordingly, ours too. And with his future wife he met in the arena.

At the presentation in Baku, he saw a beautiful peach, fell in love and immediately made her an offer. Life was not simple: a large family of housing was not given during a tour - then they will be sheltered in a red corner, then in the room of the counselors. Treating Fatima began at 5 years. By imitating at that time the circus artist Galina Tarbeeva, who performed in the beautiful costume of the swan, began to stretch stubbornly and bend, dreaming of such a dress.

And studying at school, although we did not study for more than a month for a month - we moved from the city to the city on tour, and communicating with friends, I was always a wound and easily adapted in a new company, and, of course, rehearsals. I saw that other children in the circus were given some elements much more complicated, they could have learned what I did the first time.

After the end of the fourth grade to Fatima, as well as its sisters, the problem was: the divorce of parents. Mom, exhausted by constant tour, remained to live in a Moscow apartment, dad continued his circus and trip. We did not know another life path. He completely took care of us - he cooked borscht, weaved braids, trained, raised. And we lived our children's life, played, rehearsed, rejoiced at beautiful costumes and applause.

From the age of 12, Fatima Gadzhikurbanov was officially credited to the circus artists. The numbers with the participation of the sisters were unique and enjoyed phenomenal success. But by the age of 18, Fatima became clear that the circus was changing and the time to change the topic of their performances: to change national costumes to sparkling grace, Lezginka - to the music of modern rhythms.

A new and fresh composition was needed. The sisters turned to his father with this, but he categorically refused to change anything in the program. Then the sisters decided to create their own number. Dad calmed down and began to actively help us in creating a room. Understanding each other by the movement of the shoulders and turn of the head, trusting as themselves, they performed such tricks, which you still look at with admiration today.

There was no repetition and was not. The evidence of unique performances in the scenes of the Czech film about the circus “Solo for an elephant with an orchestra” has been preserved. But it is difficult to work as a large family: all hot, no one restrained his emotions even after 5 years of joint performances, the team broke up. Fatima with her husband and younger sister, working in a circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, created their own number.

Young and bold, new compositions they loaded with more and more complex tricks, traveled all over Europe, visited Japan three times. But on one of the performances in Alma-Ata, the rope suddenly sagged, and Sasha could not resist.His fall made such an impression on Isolda, the younger sister of Fatima, already falling in childhood that she had a panic fear of heights. And she could no longer work in the room.

Having created her number, she began to perform independently with the hoops. And Sasha recovered after the fall and rose again to the rope. Now a new partner appeared in their three - Igor. They created a new number and went with it under a contract in the United States. And then a disaster happened. Successfully speaking on the rope, making dizzying and unique tricks, Sasha suddenly fell from his home stairs.

And the reason was a complete cardiac arrest.

Fatima Gadzhikurbanova was in a foreign country, without a home and relatives, almost without knowledge of a language and with a terminally sick husband. Sasha fell into a coma and was in it for 13 years 1 month and 3 days. At this time, Fatim had to leave the circus, earn money, where it is possible, and take care of him. She began by washing floors in church buildings. With the development of the language, she managed to get a better paid work of the consultant in the company Esther Lauder.

Because except for the hospital to a hopelessly sick husband, and the doctors immediately said that there was no chance of recovery, there is nowhere to go. But I waited and looked after him. And this is a miracle that he had lived for so many years. I know that he felt my concern, and heard me. And I did not give up and believed, and lived with hope. Upon returning to Russia, immediately after the death of her husband, Fatima decided to recreate the number with which they acted until his illness, so the newly created team has the name "Covenant Mednikovs." Sit on the barrier and lead.

But all these years I lived with the thought of returning to the circus. He is my house, my fate, my favorite job. And I lost weight, and took the form and went up to the rope. For the first time, according to Fatima, even the pressure jumped from excitement, and the pulse pounded like a frantic. I had to drink behind the scenes in a quiet valerian. But the next day I already felt, as before - calmly and confidently.

Preparations for the number have been going on for more than three years, and only a few months ago it was possible to restore almost all the tricks of past years. Fatima partners are two acrobats, whom she taught to walk in the rope actually from scratch. Fatima herself this year celebrated her fiftieth anniversary of work in the circus. Now she is not only a trunk, but also the artistic director of the Yuri Merdenov program “Kuban Cossacks”.

So that in complex life moments, and they have each, their hands do not give up. After all, the sun will look out again tomorrow. Let them look around and understand how happy they are. Then shake off, raise their heads and go forward with shiny eyes.