Urkuya Salieva (Kyrgyz: Уркуя Салиева, romanized: Urkuya Saliyeva; born 1910 in Murkut, in Nookat District, Osh oblast, Kyrgyzstan – 4 February 1934) was a political activist and communist organizer during the development of the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic.
[1][3] She became a secretary in the local Komsomol, the Soviet communist youth organization, at age 17 in 1927.
[1][6] On February 4, 1934, Salieva and her husband were assassinated by anti-Soviet partisan forces (Basmachi movement), who opposed policies such as forced collectivization; though the movement had lost power elsewhere, it was still active in southern Kyrgyzstan into the early 1930s.
[1] Erected in 1978, the monument depicts Salieva in a flowing garment and wearing a headscarf, one hand held out to the side, the other holding a banner.
[20] Salieva was included in a 2020 photography exhibition drawn from Kulbubu Bekturganova's book Kyrgyz Woman: History and Modernity.