Outside work

Outside work

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Together with my wife, I am raising three daughters. Outside work: running, boxing, cycling, skiing and DNA genealogy.

Arslan Radikovich Kinzyabulatov on a mountain trail race course
Tahtalı Run To Sky trail race, 2024 · photo by Alkım Saraç
Sport

The long distance makes sense to me

As a child I did judo and sambo. Today my main interests are running, boxing, cycling and skiing.

I run on tarmac and off-road. In races what I value is not the medal at the finish but the work on the course itself: pacing your effort, not falling apart after a mistake and keeping moving.

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Races

Selected distances

Selected races: half marathons, marathons, mountain races and ultra distances.

202442.2 km

Dubai Marathon

202427 km

Tahtalı Run To Sky

202451 km

Bolshoy Liman

202433 km

Melovye Sosny

202542.2 km

Belye Nochi

various years21.1 km

Half marathons

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Family

What matters most outside work

Together with my wife, I am raising three daughters.

Family is what gives everything else its meaning. Trips together, ordinary weekends and time that is not divided into working and non-working hours.

That is also where the interest in roots comes from: I want the children to know where they come from.

Arslan Kinzyabulatov with his wife and three daughters
Family · personal archive
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Video

Video

Footage from races and training sessions.

Place

The woods near home

I live next to a forest and spend a lot of time there. If I see litter I pick it up; in winter I sometimes feed the squirrels.

There is no public office behind this. It is simply a place near home that I would like to keep alive.

The oak

The story of the park

In the autumn of 2025 the outlet 164.ru wrote about an old oak in Tin-Zin park. The tree was added to the register of remarkable trees of Russia.

Related · 164.ru · 23.10.2025The outlet reported on the situation around preserving an old oak in Tin-Zin park. My position on the subject is mentioned in the article.Open the article ↗
Roots

DNA genealogy and archives

My grandfather, Arslan Sagidullovich Kinzyabulatov, was a front-line soldier and a holder of the Order of Glory; I am named after him.

The interest in family roots comes from DNA genealogy, studying archival documents and looking for documented links between generations.

I work with parish registers, 19th-century revision lists, military and filtration records, Soviet-era documents, and state archives in Russia and Belarus. My research draws on materials from Arolsen Archives, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Belarusian archives, including KGB archival records, the Central Archive of the FSB, and regional Interior Ministry and Federal Penitentiary Service archives.

DNA testing helps me verify documentary family lines; it does not replace historical records. Comparing documents with DNA results helps confirm kinship, recover lost lines and separate family legend from established fact.

The Komissarov family

The fate of my grandmother and her family

A separate part of this research is reconstructing the fate of my grandmother, Maria Ilyinichna Komissarova, and her family. During the occupation, family members were arrested and sent to the Polotsk concentration camp for their links to Belarusian partisans. Her father, my great-grandfather Ilya Vasilyevich Komissarov, died in 1944 in a forced-labour camp in Germany. Filtration files, Red Cross records, Arolsen Archives and Belarusian archival materials are gradually helping me reconstruct the lives of relatives and disrupted family branches.

Archival findings

Documents the family archive never held

Archival research sometimes recovers more than names and dates — it returns unique documents that were never part of the family archive. My grandfather Arslan Sagidullovich Kinzyabulatov’s personal file preserved a handwritten autobiography. The records trace his path from a peasant family and collective-farm work to the management of machine and tractor stations. In 1937, his appointment as an MTS director was considered at the level of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Fragment of the handwritten autobiography of Arslan Sagidullovich Kinzyabulatov, 1937
Fragment of the handwritten autobiography of Arslan Sagidullovich Kinzyabulatov, 1937. A document from a personal file reviewed within the structures of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Another remarkable find is a photograph of my grandmother Maria Ilyinichna Komissarova attached to a 1946 interrogation record following her liberation and return to the Soviet Union. Documents like these let you see a person whose image might otherwise never have survived in family memory.

Photograph of Maria Ilyinichna Komissarova in a 1946 interrogation record
Maria Ilyinichna Komissarova. A photograph attached to a 1946 interrogation record following her liberation and return to the Soviet Union.
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Photo archive

Personal photo archive

Pictures from the personal archive: portraits, work on construction sites, running and trail races, travel and family frames. Any photograph can be opened at full size.