Sara Shakulova

Sayyidah Sara Kasimovna Shakulova (Russian: Сара Касимовна Шакулова; 27 July 1887 — 5 September 1964) was a Russian mathematician and the first female mathematician of Tatar descent.^[1]

Sara Shakulova in childhood

Sara Shakulova
Born	(1887-07-27)27 July 1887 Kasimov
Died	5 September 1964(1964-09-05) (aged 77) Moscow

Sara Shakulova (fifth from right) with revolutionaries, 1907-1908.

Shakulova taught maths at the Zaraysky Real College in Ryazan Governorate (1915-1916),^[2] with a salary of 112-185 rubles, Kazan Urban Female Commercial College (1916-1919), Tatar Aitova School, and L. Khusainova Female School. In 1919-1923, she worked as vice people’s commissar for education and head of the Main Office for Professional Technical Education of the Bashkir ASSR.^[3] She was a private teacher from 1912 to 1915 and spoke Tatar, Russian and French.^[4]

In April 1917, she took part in the All-Russian Congress of Muslim Women in Kazan.^[5]

In 1923, on the invitation of the People's Commissariat for Education, she moved to Moscow, where she worked as inspector of non-Russian language schools. At the same time, she taught maths in schools and higher educational institutions. From 1925, she was the director of the N. Narimanov Tatar School No. 1 in Moscow.^[3] From 1938 to 1963 she taught at technical universities in Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

She had a mother, Fatyma Shakulova, who was 30 years older than her, a brother, Akhmeta, who was 3 years older than her, and sisters Leyla and Amina, 12 and 14 years younger respectively.^[4] Her father was named Kasymkhan Khusainovich Shakulova^[6] and worked in leather processing and sales.^{[citation needed]}

Kasymkhan Khusainovich Shakulova

Fatyma Shakulova

Sara Shakulova died on 5 September 1964 and was buried at the Danilovskoye Muslim Cemetery in Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

Sara Shakulova with students, 1920s