Yadgar Nasriddinova

[1] She was purged from the Communist Party in 1988 after the death of Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) and during the corruption investigations in the Uzbek cotton scandal.

Yadgar Sadykovna Nasriddinova was born on 26 December 1920 in Kokand, of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

[2] She worked as a foreman on the Katta-Kurgan Reservoir project and the following year she headed the crew which built the rail line between Tashkent and the Angrenugol Mine.

[2] Around this time, she became the second wife of Siroj Nuritdinov [uz] (Sirodzh Nurutdinov),[5][6] a war veteran and secretary of the regional party committee, who would later serve as chairman of the trade unions of Uzbekistan.

[12] At the end of her term in 1974, Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, asked her if she wanted to retain the post.

[2][3] Throughout her tenure in power she was one of the most vocal opponents of allowing the Crimean Tatar people the right of return to Crimea, even bluntly stating in a meeting with Crimean Tatar civil rights activists that she opposed allowing their return to Crimea because of labor needs in the Uzbek SSR.

They discovered records indicating that Herman Karakozov [ru] had been convinced of Nasriddinova's involvement and that intervention by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee had stopped her arrest in 1975.

[3] Investigative journalist, Arkady Sakhnin, alleged that Nasriddinova also paid for her son’s lavish wedding with state funds, which prompted a scolding from Brezhnev, but no further action against her.

Nasriddinova insisted she had never been involved, that witnesses had fabricated testimony against her, and demanded that Izvestia print her answer denying all the allegations in their article.

Grave of Yadgar Nasriddinova and her son Bakhtiar