Shamama Hasanova

Shamama Mahmudali gizi Hasanova (Arayatlı, 7 November 1923 – Baku, 5 September 2008; Azerbaijani: Şamama Mahmudəli qızı Həsənova) was an Azerbaijani cotton grower and politician, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

She was chairman of the "1 May" collective farm in the Fuzuli District of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Since 1942, Hasanova worked gathering cotton at the "1 May" collective farm of Karyaginsky District, where she led a Komsomol team.

[1][2] In 1947, she was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour title for high crop yields, becoming the first cotton grower in the Soviet Union to receive this distinction.

[2] Hasanova was a delegate to the 20th and 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.