Gjuvara Dzjachangir kizi Noerieva (28 April 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a
Soviet metallurgical engineer, the first
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woman to be a professional metallurgist,
[Исмаилов, 2009, с. 237.] and the first Azerbaijani woman to work in the metallurgical industry.
[АСЭ, 1983, с. 304.]
She has an entry in the
Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia.
Biography
Early life
Gjuvara Noerieva was born on 28 April 1912 in the city of
Elizavetpol
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,
Elizavetpol Governorate (now the city of Ganja in
Azerbaijan) in the family of Dzjachangirkhana Noerieva, who was the son of Boyuk-beka Nuribekova and Rahshand-Sultan Khanum,
[ who, in turn, was the daughter of the former Governor-General of Azerbaijan Bahman Mirza Qajar from his marriage, according to family legend, with the "Egyptian princess" Shahzadeh khanum.
]
Education
In 1935, Noerieva graduated from the Metallurgical Faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute.
Career
Subsequently, she worked at the Krasny Putilovets Plant in Leningrad (now the Kirov Plant), in the open-hearth shop. She held the positions of process engineer, master metallurgist, senior engineer, head of the shop, etc.
Accomplishments
During the Great Patriotic War, Gjuvara Noerieva participated in the development and application at the same plant of technology for welding special armored steel grades for tanks and anti-magnetic steel for submarines
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. She was also the organizer of the high-speed mode in metallurgical technology.[
]
Memoir
She died on 30 April 1945 at work.[ In 2016, the book by Georgy Zapletin “Gjuvara. Life is like a torch,” tells about the life of Gjuvara Noerieva.][Халапова С. Книга о первой женщине - инженере-металлурге Азербайджана // novosti.az. — 2016. — 16 ноября.]
See also
* Azerbaijan
* Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
* Kirov Plant
References
Further reading
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1912 births
1945 deaths
Soviet metallurgists
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni