Lyudmila Marin-Karachoban is the director of the National Gagauz Museum in Besalma, Gagauzia. The ethnographic museum was founded in 1966 by her late father, Dmitry Karachoban. He was a Gagauz poet, artist and teacher who dedicated most of his life to the rediscovery of the traditions of this nation within a nation.
Lyudmila tells the story of the museum with anecdotes about the life of her father, a revered person throughout the region. She is afraid Gagauzia might be at risk of disappearance due to the opening of the Moldovan society towards the West and Europe, and because of migration. ‘Why did we survive until now? Because there was unity, there was a homeland that kept us enclosed.’
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- An anthology of poetry written by Dmitri Karachoban. The book is written in Gagauz with Cyrillic script, common during Soviet times.
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- A poem written in Gagauz language by Dmitri Karachoban.
