Mamlakat Nakhangova

Mamlakat Akberdyevna Nakhangova (Мамлакат Оқбердиевна Наҳангова, Мамлака́т Акбердыевна Наха́нгова; 1924 — 2003) was a Soviet cotton picker, member of the Stakhanovite movement, the youngest and first among the pioneers knights of the  highest order of the USSR, the Order of Lenin (1935).

During the World War II she participated in London at a peace conference.

In adult life Nakhangova was a Soviet philologist, candidate of philological sciences; and Associate Professor of the Tajik State Pedagogical University. In 1970-1977 she was the head of the department of foreign languages of the medical institute in Dushanbe.

Mamlakat Nakhangova became the heroine of the first poem by Mirzo Tursunzoda The Sun of the Country.

She was married and had two children, a daughter named Roxana and a son named Alisher.