Hismatullina Razifa is Wafir Gusmanov’s daughter. Like many of her generation she can not have children of her own. She adopted Olesya. Her siblings who did have children, have had many problems. Razifa’s eldest sister had a child with a ‘paralysed brain’ and a son who died in his sleep when he was eight years old. He had been ill, because of a very weak immune system, most of his short life. Hismatullina Razifa’s other sister has two children who are both ill. (Half life book page 25)