Galiya Bayazit gizi Izmaylova (Tatar: Галия Баязит кызы Измайлова, romanized: Ğaliä Bayazit qızı İzmaylova12 February 1923, Tomsk – 2 October 2010, Tashkent) was an Uzbek and Soviet ballerina of Tatar origin, ballet master, choreographer, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR (1962), laureate of the Stalin Prize II degree (1950).
[4] Izmaylova began her dance career at the age of 11, and soon she was invited to the newly opened ballet school.
[5] In 1947, at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Prague, Izmaylova received the first prize for the performance of the Uzbek (Bukhara) dance called "Zang".
[2] Among the roles of Izmaylova are: Maria and Zarema (The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Boris Asafiev, 1945, 1961), Gulnara (The Ballerina by Georgi Mushel, 1949), Kitri (Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, 1948, 1960, 1970), Tao Hoa (The Red poppy by Reinhold Glier, 1949), Giselle (Giselle by Adolphe Adam, 1957), Carmen (Bolero by Maurice Ravel, 1960), Nargiz (The Kashmir Legend by Georgi Mushel, 1961), Juanita (Don Juan by Leonid Feigin, 1964), Aegina (Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian, 1967), Gulaim (Forty Girls by Leonid Feigin, 1967), Chundari (Amulet of Love by Mukhtar Ashrafi, 1969), etc.
[5] Since 1977, Izmaylova was the chief choreographer of the Uzbek Opera and Ballet Theater named after I. Navoi in Tashkent.