Ariadna Chasovnikova

Ariadna Chasovnikova (Kazakh: Ариадна Леонидовна Часовникова; Ariadna Leonidovna Chasovnikova, 8 November 1918 – 19 August 1988) was a Kazakh–Soviet politician who served as the Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR.

Graduating from Tomsk State University, between 1941 and 1942, she worked as a chemical engineer in a plant that purified nitrogen.

She joined the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and in 1942 was selected as the chair of the regional planning commission.

After three years, she became the supervisor of economics for the USSR State Planning Committee for Kazakhstan and served in that post until 1949.

[2] That same year, she was elected as the Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR[1][3] and became a member of the Communist Party of the Caucasus' Central Committee.