Riad used to be a kid too (9 months old).

Riad, 4 years old;

Riad, 7 years old;

Riad, 28 years old, in Houston Butterfly Museum;

Riad, almost 29 years old, in Baku Academy of Science garden.


My mama, grandpa, dad and his family
live in Baku.



My mama Tamara (Toma) teaches theory of music
in Bul-Bul School of Music.

Mama in San Jacinto, Texas.

Mama in the schoolyard.

Mama at the Houston Grand Opera.

Mama at home.


My grandpa Abbas is a WWII veteran
and a retired police officer.


My father Emin teaches metrology in Polytech University,
his wife Natasha is an engineer in oil industry,
my halfbrother Tamerlan goes to my school #134.

Dad, Natasha and Tamerlan.

Dad in his twenties;

Dad and his sons;

Tamerlan, named after Timur the Lame, a Turkic warlord and emperor of XV century.


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