Kaisha Atakhanova

Female, Person

1957 –

87

Who is Kaisha Atakhanova?

Kaisha Atakhanova is a biologist from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, specializing in the genetic effects of nuclear radiation. Due to her civil society activism, she was awarded the international Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 for leading a campaign to prevent nuclear waste from being commercially imported into the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Atakhanova is founder and former leader of the Karaganda Ecological Center.

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Born
Jul 18, 1957

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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