Rina Zaripova

Rina Zaripova (Tatar: Rina Bayan qızı Zarifova; 12 (19) March 1941 – 10 January 2008 ) was a Tatar journalist, translator, teacher, Merited Culture Worker of Tatarstan Republic, and prizewinner of the competition for journalists "Bällür qäläm", or "Crystal pen" (2001).

In 1973–2002, she worked as letters department manager in the newspaper "Tatarstan yäşläre", or "Youth of Tatarstan". Her articles cover a wide range of issues related to the problems of morality, upbringing, family, etc.

Life

Early life Born in village Meñnär on 12 March 1941, she was a daughter of school teachers Mäsrürä Zarifullina and Fätxelbayan Ağumov. The wrong date 19 March was registered on her birth certificate. Сoming from a line of mullahs, her father with his family had to change many places of work due to the policies of communists. Two of her father's brothers and her grandmother were repressed and were shot in 1930, 1936, and 1937. Always obliged to move between different places, her family stayed for a short while in Meñnär and Käzkäy. There were 8 children in the family. Her father participated in the Great Patriotic War. After that, her family moved to Yaña Älem, where she had her two-year primary education. Then, her family moved for a while to the villages of İske Soltanğol, Şärip and Yuğarı Gäräy. She finished her ten-year school education in Yuğarı Gäräy.

In 1960, she was admitted to the faculty of Russian-Tatar philology of Elabuga Pedagogical Institute and finished her education in 1965. Sent by Institute, she taught Russian literature and language at school of the villages of Tatar Saralanı (1964–1967) and Keçe Yılğa (1967–1968). In 1973, she became a letters department manager and occupied this position until October 1, 2002. Due to the fact that readers often asked for publications of songs by Sara Sadıyqova, Rina Zaripova had to see her regularly from time to time, which later brought them closer and made friends. She often got to be reminded about the hurry, which overflows her in rare returns to lunch-break to listen to the readings in the Radios.

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