Ziba Aminzade

Zebo Muhiddinovna Aminzoda (born October 3, 1948) is a Tajik ballet dancer and choreographer, active during the Soviet period and after.

Life and career Aminzoda is a native of Dushanbe, then called Stalinabad. She was born into an artistic family; her father was the poet , while she learned dance from her mother and grandmother. She studied dance under E. N. Zhemchuzhina at the Institute of Choreography at the Great Theater of the Soviet Union from 1958 until 1962; in that year she went to Tashkent, to work with Kunduz Mirkarimova at the division of popular dance at the Tashkent Institute of Choreography.

She remained at that institution until 1965, when she took a position with the company of the Pushkin Music and Comedy Theater in Khujand, then called Leninabad. In 1978 she left to become head of the Zebo Ensemble, a dance ensemble under the purview of the Committee for Tajik Radio and Television.

She was a vice-chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tajikistan in 1993 and 1994; in the latter year she became her country's permanent representative at the Mir International Radio and Television Company in Moscow. and she was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.