Marinika Babanazarova is an Uzbekistani museologist and curator, mostly known for being a director of

Nukus Museum of Art The Nukus Museum of Art, or more properly the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky ( kaa, I.V.Savitskiy atındaǵı Qaraqalpaqstan mámleketlik kórkem-óner múzeyi, uz, I.V.Savitskiy nomidagi Qoraqal ...

for thirty years after death of its founder

Igor Savitsky Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky (russian: И́горь Вита́льевич Сави́цкий) (4 August 1915 in Kyiv, Russian Empire – 27 July 1984 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian-born painter, archeologist and collector, especiall ...

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 National University of Uzbekistan (NUUz) () is a public university located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. NUUz is the oldest and largest university in Uzbekistan. National University of Uzbekistan is named after Mirzo Ulugbek. NUUz professors and teac ...

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

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

. From 1984 to September 2015 - Director of the Karakalpak State Museum of Art. Headed the museum after the death of its founder, friend of her father, Igor Savitsky. During the directorship of Mariniki, the Savitskiy Museum received world fame and the metaphorical name "Louvre in the Desert" - for its unique (second in the world) collection of the Russian avant-garde in a place that was unexpected to foreigners. Internship at the Louvre (1998), British Museum (2000); She studied museums in the United States (1993), France (1998), Austria (2002), Sweden (1999, 2003) and Holland (2007). From 1998 to 2015 she was a member of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

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Awards

* 1996 Ordre "Dustlik", Uzbekistan * 2013

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...

, France.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Babanazarova, Marinika Museum directors People from Karakalpakstan Living people 1955 births Recipients of Order of Friendship of Uzbekistan