Zohra Akchurina

Zöhrä Aqçurina was a Russian journalist of Tatar origin. She was born in Sviyazhsk in 1862. Unlike most Tatar woman at the time, she received a secular education. She moved to Crimea in 1880. Here she met Ismail Gasprinsky, who hired her to work as a writer and translator for his magazine, Terciman. She died in Bakhchysarai on 13 April 1903.