His desk under the east window, the Moskva typewriter with the Iradi letters he had soldered on in 1962, the editor’s blue pencils, and the shelf of books he saw through the press at the state publishing house.
Where the family ate and where the neighbours came to listen to the radio. The felt on the floor was made in the village for his mother’s wedding.
The cradle and the chest. The icon corner is as the family kept it; the icon itself is a copy, the original is with his daughter in Talas.
Where he read to visitors on summer evenings. The museum’s readings are here, and the Ishakov Prize reading every August.
Two apricot trees he planted in 1961 and the bench where he sat to smoke. The path to the hill starts at the back gate.
In 2023 the Körköm Foundation paid for a new roof of larch shingle, the way the house was first roofed, and for the study’s ceiling to be mended. The work was done by carpenters from the village.