Anna Muhamedow[a] (1900–1938) was the acting first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR immediately following Yakov Popok's resignation due to ill health on 15 April 1937. She served as the sixth first secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party.

Her term lasted six months until, Joseph Stalin selected Yakov Chubin to succeed Popok.

In 1937, Stalin sent a telegram to Muhamedow, authorising the arrest of all Afghan citizens.[1]

She was arrested in October 1937 amid the Great Purge[2] and shot a year later. She was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.

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  1. ^ Also known by her name transliterated from Russian, Anna Mukhamedov (Russian: Анна Мухамедов)

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  1. ^ Soroka, Lora. Archives of the Communist Party and Soviet State: Fond 89: Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial. Hoover Press. ISBN 978-0-8179-2783-7.
  2. ^ "МУХАММЕДОВ (АННА-МУХАМЕДОВ), Анна". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
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Party political offices
Preceded by First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR
1937
Succeeded by