Khertek anchimaa-toka biography of mahatma

Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka (1 January 1912 – 4 November 2008) was a Tuvan/Soviet politician who in 1940-1944 was a chairman of Little Khural (parliament) of Tuvan People's Republic, and the first elected or appointed (i.e., not hereditary) female head of state in the modern worldKhertek Anchimaa was born in what is now Bay-Tayginsky kozhuun of Tuva in a poor peasant family.

She lost her father and elder brother due to smallpox when a child. Despite her mother being illiterate, Khertek managed to learn to write and read in Mongolian language, and in 1930, when the first national Tuvan alphabet was introduced, she was one of the first to learn it.

The same year, she was admitted to Revsomol, the youth organization connected with Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party (TPRP) (the analogue of Komsomol in the USSR). She was among those put in charge of illiteracy eradication in her native kozhuun.

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