Background
BOGDANOVA, Medina was born on December 26, 1908 in Bukhara.
BOGDANOVA, Medina was born on December 26, 1908 in Bukhara.
1930 graduate Oriental Department, Centr Asian University. 1934 completed postgraduate studies at Institute of Nationalities, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Central Executive Committee.
Studied lit of Centr Asia and Kazakhstan Helped latinize, then cyrillicize alphabets of Turkic-speaking peoples of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Wrote first study of history of Kir lit Kirgizskaya literature (Kirghiz Literature) (1947).
Articles on folklore and epics of peoples of Centr Asia.
Communist Party member from 1942.