"Shakhmurad Alimkhanov"). After returning from studies, he was fluent in German. He also studied at the Institute of the coal industry. According to Shakhmurad's classmate, Khaidar Yusupov, Shakhmurad dreamed of becoming a military man, but he could not be admitted to study at a military school due to ideological considerations, since he was "the son of an enemy of the people." After that, on the advice of friends and acquaintances, he decided to disown his father. In 1930 (according to other sources, in 1929) he wrote an open letter to his father through the Izvestia newspaper, where he renounced Seyid Alim Khan, accusing him and his government of grave sins and deeds. According to some reports, this was arranged by the NKVD, which pushed him to take such a step through acquaintances and friends who were informers of this special service. After that, he was admitted in the Moscow Military Engineering Academy named after V. V. Kuibyshev. After graduation, he began teaching at the same academy. He served in the Red Army and later received the rank of major general. He participated in the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and lost his leg, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and after the end of the war he again began teaching at the V. V. Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy in Moscow. He was married, his wife's name was Lidia Mikhailovna. According to the memoirs of one of Shakhmurad's contemporaries, "When Shakhmurad came to visit us with his wife Lidia Mikhailovna, then, having drunk, he remembered his parents and cried." Many of Shahmurad's acquaintances and friends did not know about his origin, and he spoke about his past only to close friends. According to some reports, he died in 1985 in Moscow, at the age of 75. Alim Khan's daughter, Shukria Alimi Raad, worked as a broadcaster for Radio Afghanistan. Shukria Raad left Afghanistan with her family three months after Soviet troops invaded the country in December 1979. With her husband, also a journalist, and two children she fled to Pakistan, and then through Germany to the United States. In 1982 she joined the Voice of America, working for many years as a broadcaster for VOA's Dari Service, editor, program host and producer. During his governance in Bukhara, Alim Khan also had a son named Qasem who was killed by the Bolshevik revolutionaries. Qasem had only one son who,