Tomorrow is the International Women's Day! Women of Central Asia are smart, strong, kind, talented and beautiful!
🌟Malika Sobirova (1942 — 1982), a prominent Tajik ballet dancer and instructor. Graduated from the Leningrad Choreography Academy (the Vaganova Ballet School). Malika Sobirova’s repertoire consisted of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Leyli and Majnun, Don Quixote, Bayadère, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and many others. During this period, her professional mentor and trainer was the famous ballet master Galina Ulanova, whom Malika periodically visited for rehearsals. Ulanova trained Malika for the 1969 International Ballet Competition in Moscow, where she won a gold medal.
🌺Marinika Babanazarova (b. 1955) – Director of Nukus Museum of Art (“Savitsky Museum”) in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, 1984-2015. A philologist, translator, writer, museologist, and curator, Marinika Babanazarova is the author of many articles and books on a variety of topics, including the book Igor Savitsky: Artist, Collector, Museum Founder.
👑Kurmanjan Datka (1811–1907), Kyrgyz tribal leader, known as the Queen of Alai or the Queen of the South. "Datka" in Kyrgyz or "dadhoh" in Persian means "righteous ruler". After her husband was murdered in the course of a palace coup in 1862, Kurmanjan was recognized by the khans of Bukhara and Kokand as ruler of the Alai. Kurmanjan Datka proved to be an outstanding stateswoman, and the legends that were composed about her were passed down the generations to this day.
🌟Maya Kulieva (1920 — 2018), Turkmen opera singer (soprano) and actress, artistic and production director. People’s Artist of the USSR (awarded 1955). Maya Kulieva graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in 1941. She began performing at the recently opened Magtymguly Opera and Ballet Theater in Ashgabad and became one of the pioneers of opera in Turkmenistan. Her leading roles in Leyli and Mejnun, Onegin, Madam Butterfly, Faust, Carmen, Pagliacci, The Tsar’s Bride, Zohre and Tahir, Shasenem and Garip impressed the audience not only at home but in many other countries abroad.
♟⭐️Zhansaya Abdumalik (born in 2000) is a Kazakhstani chess Grandmaster (GM). She is the first Kazakhstani woman, and the 39th woman overall, to earn the GM title. Abdumalik has a peak FIDE rating of 2505 and has been ranked as high as No. 11 in the world among women.
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