Zuurakan Kaynazarova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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politician
Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1902
Place of Birth: Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan
Date of Death: 04-Jun-1982
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Zuurakan Kaynazarova
- Zuurakan Kaynazarova (Kyrgyz: ???????? ???????????) (June 18, 1902 – June 4, 1982) was a Kyrgyzstani collective farm worker and politician during the Soviet era. Kaynazarova was born in the village of Dzhalamysh in the Sokuluk District of Chuy Region in northern Kyrgyzstan.
- Her career as a farmworker began in 1929, and by the 1930s she was managing record numbers of beets in her harvests; in one year, 1947, she managed to harvest 15 hectares (37 acres) worth of beets.
- As a result, she was designated team leader for several beet farms in the Chuy Region.
- During World War II she worked to produce crops to aid the war effort, and took in a number of war orphans.
- Her abilities led Kaynazarova to receive a number of honors during her career.
- She received the Order of Lenin three times, in 1941, 1947, and 1948; in 1946 she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and in 1948 and 1957 she was named a Hero of Socialist Labour.
- As a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union she was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR; she also serve as a member and vice-chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR.
- Kaynazarova retired in 1958 and died in 1982; in retirement she lived in Frunze, today Bishkek.
- She continues to be memorialized in her native country.
- A bust of her in pink granite was erected in Bishkek in 1975, along Dzherzhinsky (today Erkindik) boulevard.
- A high school in her home region bears her name, and she has been the subject of a documentary film; furthermore her birthday has been designated the day on which the work of rural women is recognized and honored.
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