Maryam Yakubova (educator)

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Maryam Yakubova (Uzbek: Maryam Yoqubova) (12 May 1931 – 10 April 2018) was an Uzbek educator and teacher.

She grew up in Urgench and studied at Urgench No.1 School, graduating with honors in 1948. She earned a degree from the Khorezm Pedagogical State Institute in 1952 as a mathematics and physics teacher, then returned to Urgench No.1 School to teach until 1958.

From 1958 to 1962, she led the Urgench city department of public education. She then served as the director of Health Boarding School No. 94 in Urgench until 1992.

Awards and honors:
- Honored Professor of Public Education in the Uzbek SSR (1958)
- State Prize for Excellence in Public Education of Uzbekistan (1959)
- Order of the Badge of Honor (1960)
- Order of Lenin (1966)
- Medal of Jubilee (1970)
- Honored Teacher of Uzbekistan (1978)
- People’s Teacher of the USSR (1986)
- Independence of Uzbekistan commemorative plaque (1991)
- 25 Years of the Independence of Uzbekistan commemorative plaque (2016)
- Order of the Presidium of the Uzbek SSR (date not specified)