Fotima Borukhova

Fotima Borukhova, also Fatima Borukhova (; 9 November 1916 – August 2009) was an Uzbek Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano), Honored Artist of Uzbekistan, People's Artist of the USSR (1950). She is best known for singing a part of Zebuniso in the first Uzbek opera "Buran" (The Storm) by Mukhtar Ashrafi and Sergei Vasilenko, as well as for singing katta ashula songs.

Early life Fotima Borukhova was born on 9 November 1916. In 1930, she began her scenic activity in the Andijan and Drama Music Theater, and from 1935, she was a soloist of the Tashkent Opera and Ballet Theater named after Alisher Navoi.

Borukhova's other parts include: Parts: Leili ("Leili and Majnun" by Reinhold Glière and Tolibjon Sadikov), Akzhunus ("Yor-Targyn" by Yevgeny Brusilovsky), Shirin ("Farhad and Shirin" by Viktor Uspensky and Georgy Mushel), Polina, Nyanya ("The Queen of Spades", "Eugene Onegin"), Fortune Teller ("Almast" by Alexander Spendiaryan) and others. Katta ashula genre takes origins in ancient folk-ritual chants and songs of “praise”.