Yakov Fudiman and his pupils After arriving in Alma-Ata in 1958, Yakov Fudiman taught viola, founded the conservatory’s chamber orchestra and trained several generations of musicians. Context: An article by his pupil Nurlan Sagimbayev was published in «История. Память. Люди» in 2018. Source: N. E. Sagimbayev, «Я. И. Фудиман – основоположник альтовой школы Казахстана», 2018, pp. 550–556. Full item: Yakov Fudiman and Kazakhstan’s school of viola playing – https://qazaqstan-israel.org/en/story/yakov-fudiman-altovaya-shkola Fragment: https://qazaqstan-israel.org/en/share/yakov-fudiman-altovaya-shkola-v1-1-en Qazaqstan-Israel