Raziya Isqaqova

Raziya Shakan-qizi Iskakova (Kazakh: Рәзия Шәкен-қызы Ысқақова, Russian: Разия Шакеновна Искакова; 25 October 1922—2010) was a Kazakh woman who was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1975 for saving wounded soldiers during World War II.

Before the war Iskakova was born in 1922 in Tumenaryk station, located in present-day Janakorgan District of Kazakhstan. She graduated from the Shymkent Medical College in 1938 and worked as the head of a village medical center and later worked as a paramedic during the construction of the Kirov canal.

Postwar She was demobilized from the military in 1946 with the rank of senior lieutenant and then worked as a nurse in the Kazakh SSR after the war. In 1975 she was honored with the Florence Nightingale medal. She died in 2010.