Angira was born on 22 March1934. She got married to Nikolay in 1953, but decided to keep her maiden surname. She has 5 children and many grandchildren after whom she looks now. The Kalmyks were sent into exile when she was 11. Angira herself ended up in Siberia where she starved. She worked in a glass factory in Yalutovskiy rayon in Tyumen where she lived with her mother, grandmother, aunt and two cousins.Despite Angira’s father and two uncles serving in the Red Army, the whole family was deported. After her wedding, in 1954 Angira gave birth to her daughter. The next daughter was born in 1956. At the end of 1956 the family returned to Kalmykia. The only person in the family who died in Siberia was their grandmother.