1. Malika Abdurakhmonovna Sobirova was a Soviet and Tajik ballet dancer and pedagogue.
12 Facts About Malika Sobirova
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Malika Sobirova is considered the most famous Tajik ballet dancer.
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Malika Sobirova's father Ibragim Sobirov was a musician and her mother Madina Sobirova was a nurse.
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Malika Sobirova took her dancing course from Leningrad Choreography Academy, from where she graduated in 1961.
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Malika Sobirova was keen to learn the complete music of the ballet.
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Malika Sobirova joined People's Artist of the USSR and regularly performed at Tchaikovsky Hall.
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Malika Sobirova was proficient in all classical forms of ballet and won several international awards.
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Malika Sobirova was a popular ballet dancer in the Soviet Union.
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Malika Sobirova was the most popular dancer of the Opera and Ballet theater which was established in 1940.
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Malika Sobirova was delighted like a child when people recognized her in the bus or total strangers greeted her as a ballerina.
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Malika Sobirova received the first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Ballet Contest in Moscow.
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In 1969, Malika Sobirova won a gold medal in an international ballet dance competition held in Varna, Bulgaria.