User:Kellyisart

Kelly Isart was born on the 12th of April, 1923 in Uzbekistan near a uranium mine in Jissax. She was the daughter of a poor Uzbek family, working in the mines. Kelly was the only child, as exposure to uranium sterilized her mother and father shortly after her birth.

Russia conquered Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic set up in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain led to overuse of agrochemicals and the depletion of water supplies, which have left the land poisoned and the Aral Sea and certain rivers half dry.

In the later months of 1924, Kelly was taken from her family in Jissax and moved to Urganch where she was raised by metal workers.

Sometime in 1939, Kelly was put to work in a factory, manufacturing small metal objects for the Red Army.