Hanifa Mavlianova

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Hanifa Muhiddinovna Mavlianova (Tajik: Ҳанифа Мавлонова, Russian: Ханифа Мухиддиновна Мавлянова) (30 January 1924 – 24 October 2010) was a soprano opera and concert singer, born in Leninabad, Tajikistan. She was granted a title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1968. She was also a Professor of music from 1978 and served as a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet.

After the Civil war in Tajikistan intensified, Hanifa moved to Moscow where she lived the last years of her life. She succumbed to death after a long illness and died in a Moscow hospital. Her body was then transported back to Tajikistan and she was buried in Dushanbe.

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