Fariza Magomadova

Background

Magomadova was born in 1925 in Chechnya.

Education

She graduated from High School Number. 2 in Grozny, and attended college in Tashkent.

Career

After graduation, she worked as a mathematics and physics teacher at a secondary school and served as deputy director of High School Number. 31 in Grozny. On 15 August 1959, she opened School Number. 15, a boarding school for girls, on Revolution Prospekt in Grozny.

Her first class consisted of 120 girls, mostly daughters of transit workers, and they ranged from grades four through ten.

To ensure that her students would receive the best education of the day, Magomadova aggressively recruited the best teachers throughout the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to work at her new boarding school. The fledgling boarding school proved very successful, as within six years education had been expanded from first through tenth grades, and in 1976 classes were set up in a separate boarding school for boys.

Magomadova left her post as boarding school director, to return to teaching - she would again teach math from 1983 to 1996. Magomadova has also been awarded the Veteran Labour award, and was awarded a pension by the Russian government on 23 August 1998.

The article also mentioned that Magomadova had trouble getting reconstruction aid from the authorities to build a new home.

Achievements

• Magomadova has been awarded the Order of Lenin for her efforts in spreading secondary education, particularly for young women, in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On July 9, 1960, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet bestowed upon Magomadova the title of "Honoured Teacher", and two days later awarded her the Order of Lenin for her efforts.