She was the first woman to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs and first Kazakh diplomat to participate in the General Assembly of the United Nations.

[1] She was the youngest child in a family with two older brothers and from a young age wanted to become a teacher and attend school so that she would not have to labor in the beet harvests.

[1] Graduating with honors in 1941, enrolled in the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University to continue her education,[2] studying language and literature.

In 1949,[1] Bultrikova was elected as chair of the Primary and Secondary School Worker's Union of the Central Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party.

[1][3] In this post, she focused on providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable sectors of society including disabled persons, the elderly, orphaned children and veterans.

In addition to providing pensions, she organized kindergartens and nurseries; sponsored schools and workshops to assist blind, deaf and mute Kazakhs; and established a factory to build prosthetics.