Zöhrä Aqçurina | |
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![]() Zöhrä Aqçurina, year unknown | |
Born | 1862
Sviyazhsk, Russia |
Died | April 13, 1903
Bakhchysarai, Crimea | (aged 40–41)
Occupation | Journalist |
Zöhrä Aqçurina ( Tatar: Зөһрә Акчурина, Russian: Зухра Акчурина; 1862 – 13 April 1903) was a Russian Empire journalist of Tatar origin. She was born in Sviyazhsk in 1862. Unlike most Tatar woman at the time, she received a secular education. She moved to Crimea in 1880. Here she met Ismail Gasprinsky, who hired her to work as a writer and translator for his magazine, Terciman. She died in Bakhchysarai on 13 April 1903. [1]