Marinika Babanazarova


Marinika Babanazarova is an Uzbekistani museologist and curator, mostly known for being a director of Nukus Museum of Art for thirty years after death of its founder Igor Savitsky.
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Biography

Babanazarova was born on September 7, 1955, in the family of a philologist scholar, the first Karakalpak fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR and a major Communist party functionary Marat Nurmukhamedov. She graduated from the Faculty of Roman-Germanic Philology of Tashkent State University with a degree in English Philology and from the art history department of the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theater and Art Institute with a degree in art criticism. Her graduation thesis was about Igor Savitsky as an artist, art historian, and creator of the museum. Babanazarova worked as an English teacher at Nukus State University from 1977 till 1983.
In 1983–1984, she was the scientific secretary and chief curator of the Karakalpak State Museum of Art in Nukus collection of the Russian avant-garde in a place that was unexpected to foreigners.
Internship at the Louvre, British Museum ; She studied museums in the United States, France, Austria, Sweden and Holland.
From 1998 to 2015 she was a member of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.

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