Russian teacher finds home comforts in Xinjiang

URUMQI－Gulnara Tolmacheva from Russia has settled down and realized her dream in Karamay, a Chinese city about 1,000 kilometers away from her home in Novosibirsk.

Tolmacheva now teaches Russian at the China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Though having had an interest in the Chinese language and culture since Tolmacheva was young, the 46-year-old did not pay her first visit to China until 2009.