Ziroatkhon Hoshimova
Ziroatkhon Mahmudovna Hoshimova, also shortened to Ziroat Mirziyoyeva, is the first lady of Uzbekistan. She was born in the city of Kokand in the Ferghana valley and is married to Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the current president of Uzbekistan. During the Karimov era, while her husband was prime minister, she was not shown on state television and avoided public appearances; when her husband became president she accompanied him on several foreign trips abroad including trips to Kyrgyzstan, China, South Korea and the United States. She studied at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration where she met her first husband.
