The couple of Lidia Blinova and Rustam Khalfin played an important role in shaping the contemporary art scene in Kazakhstan. Not only were they spouses, but they were also fellow artists who often worked together on collaborative projects, combining elements from various disciplines such as architecture, painting, sculpture, and performance.

Khalfin himself described Blinova as his "alter ego." Lidiya Alekseevna (Lida) Blinova was born on September 30, 1948, in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. She is remembered as a Soviet Kazakh architect, designer, painter, poet, sculptor, jewel designer, book designer, playwright, and film director.

At the age of 13 or 14, Lida and Rustam (Rustam Khalfin) began visiting a fine arts studio at the Palace of Pioneers in Almaty. In 1971, Blinova graduated from the architecture department at the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute. This is what Khalfin had to say about Blinova herself: "Everyone loved Lida. I met her at the studio of the Palace of Pioneers. Together, we entered the Faculty of Architecture. We were around 13 or 14 years old. She threw a can at me, but it did not hit me. From that moment, our love began. She drew better than I did. Lida started as a wood sculptor. She went to Itkind's studio to study and created a cool sculpture, better than Itkind in my opinion. She was a talented person with many skills. She collaborated with Pavel Yakovlevich Saltzman on the set design for "The Zatukany Apostle", with Sergei Bodrov. For his movie "Unprofessional", she was the costume designer. She also did puppet shows for kids and worked with plastic to make all kinds of jewelry, including a cycle that we called the Geological cycle. She was very humble and never signed her works. Lida was a magical and brilliant woman whose life was cut short too soon." Lidia Blinova was a member of the group of followers of V.V. Sterligov's school, along with Rustam Khalfin, Ablay Karpykov, and Boris Yakub, among others. She was the designer of the book project by architect Almas Baymukhanovich Ordabaev, "Architecture of Western Kazakhstan." As part of a team of architects led by Yuri Tumanyan, Lidiya Blinova participated in the planning and design of a new public space in Almaty. On March 4, 1996, Lidiya passed away in Alma-Ata due to illness at the age of 48.