Muza Niýazowa

Muza Niýazowa
First Lady of Turkmenistan
In role
2 November 1990  21 December 2006
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byOgulgerek Berdimuhamedowa
Personal details
Born
Muza Alekseevna Melnikova

(1938-06-10) 10 June 1938
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Spouse
(m. 1967; died 2006)
Children
  • Myrat
  • Irina

Muza Alekseýewna Niýazowa (née Melnikova; born 10 June 1938) is a Turkmen public figure who held the role of First Lady of Turkmenistan from 1991 until the death of her husband in 2006. She is the widow of the first president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, with whom she had two children.