Nizoramo Zaripova

Nizoramo Odinovna Zaripova was a Soviet politician and women's rights advocate. She headed the Women's Department of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1947 to 1956 and then became a Secretary of the Party between 1956 and 1966. In 1966, she was elected as Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. During her tenure, through to 1989, she stepped into the Chair of the Presidium between January and February 1984, as acting head of state of the Tajik SSR.