March 29] – June 30, 1991, born Tamara Artyemi Petrosyan)[b] was a dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer.

[1][5] In 1922, she enrolled in the Tashkent Ballet Company and began dancing in semi-professional concert groups led by the first Uzbek artists Yatym Babadzhanov, Abrar Khidoyatov, and Ali Ibrahimov.

[2][5][6] In 1924, Khanum graduated from the Central Technical School of Theatrical Arts (CETETIS) (now GITIS) in Moscow.

[9] In 1934-1935, Khanum was one of the organizers, ballet master, dancer, and pedagogical repetiteur of the Khorezm Regional Musical-Drama Theater (now named after Agakhi) in Urgench.

As an elderly person, she traveled to Irkutsk to work on the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.

From 1941 to 1969, Khanum was an organizer, artistic director, ballet master, and soloist of the musical ensemble of the Uzbek Philharmonic.

[8] In 1944, Khanum performed concerts for Central Asian workers mobilized to work in Chelyabinsk and Molotov regions.

Khanum toured internationally, visiting countries such as France (1925), England (1935), Poland (1948), China (1953), Norway (1953), Indonesia (1957), Czechoslovakia (1959), Germany, Iran, Italy, Turkey, India, Mongolia, Pakistan, and more.

He was a prominent theatrical figure and a baritone singer, achieving the title of People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1936.