TIL about Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, an Uzbek actress and one of the first Uzbek women to dance onstage without a burqa on. She became the victim of an honor killing in 1929.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurkhon_Yuldashkhojayeva
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