Xädiçä Yamaşeva (''Yamaşıva'', née Bädämşina, , , , Yaña imlâ ), ) was a dentist and a member of a revolutionary movement.

Biography

Xädiçä Yamaşeva was born in 1881 in Çistay (Chistopol); her father, Zarif Bädämşin was a merchant. Yamaşeva graduated from Kotova's private gymnasium in 1910 and, after that, from medical school in Qazan. In 1907 she was an official chief editor of the first Tatar Marxist newspaper "Ural", the actual chief editor being Xösäyen Yamaşef, her husband. During 1917, she was a member of the Board of Qazan Muslim Women Society and Вeputy Chairman of the Presidium of the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Women; she was also elected to

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, but did not participate in its activities. After 1918, she worked as a dentist in Qazan, Moscow and USSR's Central Asian republics. In 1937 Yamaşeva was arrested for the first time and accused of being a "member of the nationalist

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organization" and of "having connections with (White) emigrants" and sentenced to eight years of

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(''Ukhtizhemlag''); released in 1945. In 1949 Yamaşeva was arrested again and sentenced to exile in

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, namely to the village of Estärletamaq (Sterliamak), which happened to be an ethnic Tatar village, where she died. She was rehabilitated in 1957.

Relatives

Her first husband was Xösäyen Yamaşef, who was a Tatar social democrat revolutionary and publicist. After his death, she married Validkhan Tanachev, who was a member of

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and a member of

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government; her cousin, Mäxmütfuat (Fuat) Tuqtarof, a journalist, also was a member of

. Her uncle, Ğärif Bädämşin, was a member of

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and

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convocations of the

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*{{TES, Хәдичә Ямашева Muslims from the Russian Empire 1881 births 1950 deaths Tatar revolutionaries Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations Editors from the Russian Empire Tatar people from the Russian Empire