About 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 (1995), 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.
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