Khertek anchimaa-toka biography definition

Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka (1 January 1912 – 4 November 2008) was a Tuvinian/Soviet politician  She was active in the Soviet era and during the interwar and wartime period of national independence, when, as chairman of Tuva’s parliament, she became the world’s first non-royal female head of state.

Khertek Anchimaa-Toka served as head of the parliament of the Tuvan People's Republic, called the Little Khural, from until , the first ever elected.

Khertek Anchimaa-Toka served as head of the parliament of the Tuvan People's Republic, called the Little Khural, from until , the first ever elected.

Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka (1 January – 4 November ) was a Tuvinian/Soviet politician She was active in the Soviet era and during the.

Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka (1 January – 4 November ) was a Tuvan and Soviet politician who was the Chairwoman of Little Khural of the Tuvan People's Republic from to , and was the first non-royal female head of state in history.

Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka is widely recognized as the first female leader of a nation who did not inherit the job from her husband.

Head of state.

Early Life and Education

Khertek Anchimaa was born in what is now Bay-Tayginsky kozhuun of Tuva in a poor peasant family. Until 1911, Tuva, a region in Central Asia bordering Mongolia, had been under Chinese control; after the fall of the Qing dynasty and a brief period of independence, it became a Russian protectorate.

After the Russian Revolution, in 1921, Tuvan Bolsheviks, led by the former Buddhist monk Donduk Kuular, again declared independence, with Soviet support, as the Tuvan People’s Republic, a Soviet satellite state.

Despite family poverty and her mother’s own illiteracy, Khertek managed to learn to write and