Mamlakat Nakhangova


Mamlakat Akberdyevna Nakhangova was a Soviet cotton picker, member of the Stakhanovite movement, and the youngest recipient of the Order of Lenin.
During World War II she participated in a peace conference in London.
Nakhangova was a Soviet philologist, a candidate of philological sciences; and Associate Professor of the Tajik State Pedagogical University. From 1970-1977, she was the head of the department of foreign languages of the medical institute in Dushanbe.
She was the heroine Mirzo Tursunzoda's poem The Sun of the Country.
She was married and had two children, a daughter named Roxana and a son named Alisher.