Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maryam Yakubova (educator)
First, the National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan is national biographical dictionary and is a reasonable source for  purposes. Second, other sources, in Russian, do exist, although they don't allow full preview in GBooks (which is not surprising). E.g. this bookhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Ориентир_дает_партия/3F1CAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Марьям+Якубова+-артистка&dq=Марьям+Якубова+-артистка&printsec=frontcover contains a fairly detailed discussion about Yakubova, in several places. There are briefer mentions as well, e.g. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Русский_язык_в_национ/M2IgAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Якубова,+Марьям+Якубовна&dq=Якубова,+Марьям+Якубовна&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Народное_образование/azG7AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Якубова,+Марьям+Якубовна&dq=Якубова,+Марьям+Якубовна&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Народное_образование/8lWcAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Марьям+Якубова+-артистка&dq=Марьям+Якубова+-артистка&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Народное_образование/F-_jAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Марьям+Якубова++%22народный+учитель%22+-артистка&dq=Марьям+Якубова++%22народный+учитель%22+-артистка&printsec=frontcover (Moreover, in this last source, the mention of Yakubova apparently concerns some other article about her, by B. Volkov "To work with full dedication".) The Order of Lenin was the highest civilian decoration in the USSR. The Hero of Socialist Labor was a rank/title, which involved receiving two decorations, the Order of Lenin and a Gold Star Medal. Thus, as an award, the Hero of Socialist Labor was indeed higher. But the Order of Lenin was still a huge deal and extremely prestigious. However, of more note is Yakubova's title of People's Teacher of the USSR. That was the highest honorary title awarded by the state to teachers and it was quite rare. Only 110 peoplehttps://sarnovosti.ru/gazeta/110.pdf ever received this honor, from its establishment in 1977 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In terms of prestige the title was roughly comparable to People's Artist of the USSR, only the title of People's Teacher of the USSR was more rare. In fact, there would certainly be articles about Yakubova in the regional press in 1986 at the time this title was awarded, and they still exist somewhere in paper form in the Uzbek libraries
— User:Nsk92, 00:26, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)