Sara Shakulova

Sara Shakulova
Born27 July 1887
Died5 September 1964
NationalityRussian
Sara Shakulova (fifth from right) with revolutionaries, 1907-1908.
Sara Shakulova in childhood

Sayyidah Sara Kasimovna Shakulova (Russian: Сара Касимовна Шакулова; 27 July 1887 — 5 September 1964) was a Russian mathematician and the first female mathematician of Tatar descent.[1]

Shakulova taught maths at the Zaraysk Real College in Ryazan Governorate (1915-1916), with a salary of 112-185 rubles, Kazan Urban Female Commercial College (1916-1919), Tatar Aitova School, and L. Khusainova Female School. In 1919-1923, she worked as vice people’s commissar for education and head of the Main Office for Professional Technical Education of the Bashkir ASSR.[2] She was a private teacher from 1912 to 1915 and spoke Tatar, Russian and French.[3]

In April 1917, she took part in the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Women in Kazan.[4]

In 1923, on the invitation of the People's Commissariat for Education, she moved to Moscow, where she worked as inspector of non-Russian language schools. At the same time, she taught maths in schools and higher educational institutions. From 1925, she was the director of the N. Narimanov Tatar School No. 1 in Moscow.[2] From 1938 to 1963 she taught at technical universities in Moscow.

She had a mother, Fatima Shakulova, who was 30 years older than her, a brother, Akhmeta, who was 3 years older than her, and sisters Leyla and Amina, 12 and 14 years younger respectively.[3] Her father was named Kasymkhan Khusainovich Shakulova and worked in leather processing and sales.

She died on 5 September 1964 and was buried at the Danilovskoye Muslim Cemetery in Moscow.

Sara Shakulova with students, 1920s

References

  1. ^ "First Tatar female mathematician: prophet's descendant". Реальное время (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-07-21. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  2. ^ a b "Sayyid Shakulovs: Muslim lifestyle but without hypocrisy and dogmatism". Реальное время (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-08-12. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  3. ^ a b Габдульнуровна, Галлямова Альфия; Ильдусовна, Ханипова Ильнара (2024-10-09). "Сара Шакулова: новые штрихи к биографии". Историческая этнология (in Russian). 9 (1): 68–78. ISSN 2619-1636.
  4. ^ "Yandex". sso.passport.yandex.ru. Retrieved 2025-08-19.