Turmush correspondent spoke with their mother, Nadiira Dzhalakaeva. “My sons were born on March 5, 2018, and they are currently in the 2nd grade at school No. 84 named after Jalil Sadikov. They always wear the same clothes and regularly compete with each other. When they were infants, until they were three months old, I did not remove their tags. It was by these tags that I distinguished them: one said ‘fetus 1 — Musa,’ and the other — ‘fetus 2 — Isa.’ Once, when my sister-in-law and I were bathing them, I noticed a mole on Musa's shoulder. Since then, we have been able to tell them apart without the tags — by this mole. There have been times when I confused them,” Dzhalakaeva recounts.
She also recalled a funny incident at school: “When we first came to class, the teacher seated them at the front desk and said, ‘I want to remember who is Musa and who is Isa.’ One day, Isa received a ‘5,’ and Musa a ‘4,’ but the teacher mixed them up and recorded the grades incorrectly: ‘5’ for Musa and ‘4’ for Isa. When we got home, Isa said, ‘Mom, they mixed us up, and I got a 4, while Musa got a 5.’ My sons dream of becoming businessmen in the future. There is no such hereditary trait on their father's side, but my mother was also a businesswoman,” she added.
Nadiira Dzhalakaeva and her husband Tashtanbek Iskakov are raising seven children. “The eldest is in 7th grade, the second is in 5th. Then come Isa and Musa, and after the twins, we have three more children — aged 5, 3, and 1.5 years,” she specified.
