Tursunoy Akhunova

Tursunoy Makhmudovna Akhunova was one of the first Soviet Uzbek women cotton harvester drivers as well as recipient of the title Hero of Socialist Labor in 1959 and 1978 for high cotton yields. A member of the Communist Party since 1962 and a prominent initiator for mechanization of the cotton harvest, she became a prominent figure in Uzbekistani politics, serving in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 6th-8th convocations from 1962 to 1974 and well as the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.