17 Facts About Yadgar Nasriddinova

Yadgar Sodiqovna Nasriddinova was an Uzbek Soviet engineer, politician, and high ranking member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

Yadgar Nasriddinova was purged from the Communist Party in 1988 after the death of Leonid Brezhnev and during the corruption investigations in the Uzbek cotton scandal.

Yadgar Nasriddinova was rehabilitated and restored to party membership in 1991, when the allegations of bribery against her could not be substantiated.

Yadgar Sadykovna Nasriddinova was born on 26 December 1920 in Kokand, of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Yadgar Nasriddinova's father, who was a loader, died three months before her birth and her 13-year-old mother named her "Yadgar", a name common in Muslim countries given to male or female orphans.

Yadgar Nasriddinova's mother remarried, but her new step-father wanted nothing to do with the child.

Yadgar Nasriddinova was taken in by sympathetic passersby and passed from family to family until she was 11.

Yadgar Nasriddinova furthered her education, graduating from the Tashkent Institute of Railway Transport Engineers in 1941.

From October 1941, Yadgar Nasriddinova was employed as an engineer on the Tashkent Railway, simultaneously continuing her graduate studies at the Tashkent Institute.

Yadgar Nasriddinova worked as a foreman on the Katta-Kurgan Reservoir project and the following year she headed the crew which built the rail line between Tashkent and the Angrenugol Mine.

Tensions between Rashidov and Yadgar Nasriddinova had continued and after the ethnic riots of 1969, Rashidov saw a way to banish his rival by blaming her supporters for fomenting violence and security lapses.

Yadgar Nasriddinova consolidated his power, by posting family and friends to high government positions and distributing resources.

In 1979, Yadgar Nasriddinova retired, but did not return to Uzbekistan, as both of her children were living in Moscow and her husband had died in 1966.

Yadgar Nasriddinova first learned of the investigation when the newspaper Izvestia published an article in 1987.

Investigative journalist, Arkady Sakhnin, alleged that Yadgar Nasriddinova paid for her son's lavish wedding with state funds, which prompted a scolding from Brezhnev, but no further action against her.

Yadgar Nasriddinova insisted she had never been involved, that witnesses had fabricated testimony against her, and demanded that Izvestia print her answer denying all the allegations in their article.

Yadgar Nasriddinova died in Moscow on 7 April 2006 and was buried in the Kuntsevo Cemetery.