- Fariza Magomadova
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name = Fariza Magomadova
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occupation =Boarding school Managing director andteacher
spouse = Yunus MagomadovFariza Vagabovna Magomadova ( _ce. Фариза Вагабовна Магомадова) (born
April 4 ,1925 inChechnya ) is a former Chechenboarding school director andteacher who pioneered efforts forfemale education in theNorth Caucasus . Fariza has been awarded theOrder of Lenin for her efforts in spreadingsecondary education , particularly for young women, in theChechen-Ingush ASSR .Biography
Fariza Magomadova was born on
April 4 ,1925 to Chechen parents. She graduated from High School No. 2 inGrozny , the Chechen capital, and attendedcollege inTashkent (Stalin had ordered the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush toCentral Asia onFebruary 23 ,1944 ). After graduation Magomadova worked as amathematics andphysics teacher at asecondary school , and she served as deputy director of High School No. 31 in Grozny.On
August 15 ,1959 Magomadova opened School No. 15, aboarding school for girls, on Revolution Prospekt in Grozny. At a time when parents were reluctant to allow their daughters to be educated, Fariza fought to allow parents to send their daughters to her new boarding school. Her first class consisted of 120 girls, mostly daughters of transit workers, and they ranged from grades four through ten. To ensure that her students would receive the best education of the day, Magomadova aggressively recruited the bestteacher s throughout theChechen-Ingush ASSR to work at her new boarding school.The fledgling boarding school proved very successful, as within six years education had been expanded from first through tenth grades, and in 1976 classes were set up in a separate boarding school for boys. The educational model of Magomadova's boarding school gained wide acceptance throughout the republic, and more and more parents allowed their children to attend boarding school.
Magomadova would leave her post as boarding school director, to return to teaching - she would again teach math from 1983 to 1996.
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July 9 ,1960 , thePresidium of the Supreme Soviet bestowed upon Magomadova the title of "Honoured Teacher", and two days later awarded her theOrder of Lenin for her efforts. Magomadova has also been awarded the Veteran Labour award, and was awarded apension by theRussian government onAugust 23 ,1998 .On
October 9 ,2003 , theRussia nnewspaper Novaya Gazeta reported thatarsonists had burned down Fariza's home inUrus-Martan ; her husband Yunus, also a recipient of the Veteran Labor award, subsequently died ofcardiac arrest because he could not survive the loss. The article also mentioned that Fariza had trouble getting reconstruction aid from the authorities to build a new home. [http://2003.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2003/75n/n75n-s08.shtml]External links
*ru icon [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=rus§ion=sciencerus&row=35 Chechnya Free.ru Article on Fariza Magomadova]
*ru icon [http://www.chechen.org/modules.php?name=Known&letter=%CC&sortby=cname&page=2 Chechen.org Biographical Data]
*ru icon [http://2003.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2003/75n/n75n-s08.shtml Novaya Gazeta article]
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