Sometimes a single photo can tell us more about a period of history than a multitude of books and documents. The above photo shows us four prominent representatives of the Crimean Tatar intelligentsia of the 1920s and 1930s. In the bottom row, from left to right: philologist, historian, archeologist Osman Akchokrakly, and artist, founder and director of the Bakhchysarai Palace Museum Usein Bodaninsky. In the top row, actor Dzhelal Meinov, next to him, composer, musician Asan Refatov.
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People light up candles to commemorate 72 years since Crimean Tatar deportation on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv on May 18, 2016.
