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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.

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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