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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. 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 (at present, the Nukus Museum o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is surrounded by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Its capital and largest city is Tashkent. Uzbekistan is part of the Turkic world, as well as a member of the Organization of Turkic States. The Uzbek language is the majority-spoken language in Uzbekistan, while Russian is widely spoken and understood throughout the country. Tajik is also spoken as a minority language, predominantly in Samarkand and Bukhara. Islam is the predominant religion in Uzbekistan, most Uzbeks being Sunni Muslims. The first recorded settlers in what is now Uzbekistan were Eastern Iranian no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |