Gurbansoltan Eje ("Mother of Gurbansoltan"; born 1913 in

Gypjak Gypjak (also known as Kipchak) is a former village that was annexed into the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat in 2013. It is now a neighborhood in Bagtyýarlyk Borough of Ashgabat. Overview The neighborhood is known as having been the home village o ...

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

; died 6 October 1948 in

Ashgabat Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...

during the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake) was the mother of Turkmenistan's first post-Soviet president

Saparmurat Niyazov Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov; tk, Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, in Cyrillic: Сапармырат Атаевич Ныязов (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), also known as Turkmenbashi, was a Turkmen politician who rule ...

("Türkmenbaşy"). Several places and institutions were named after her, including the city of Andalyp, as was the month of April in the Turkmen calendar, renamed in 2002 after the Turkmen government passed a law renaming all months and most days of week, a decision which was rescinded by his successor,

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 29 June 1957), also known as Arkadag (Cyrillic: Аркадаг, "protector"), is a Turkmen politician who served as the second president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022. A dentist by profe ...

, in April 2008. Her son also abolished the Turkmen word for bread, to be replaced with ''Gurbansoltan''.

Legacy

A statue of Gurbansoltan Eje stands in Ashgabat at latitude 37.99366 degrees north, longitude 58.32227 degrees east, in front of th
Gurban Soltan Eje Vocational Complex
also named after her.

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Soviet people 1913 births 1948 deaths Deaths in earthquakes People from Ahal Region People from Transcaspian Oblast 20th-century Turkmenistan women Saparmurat Niyazov {{Turkmenistan-bio-stub

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