Khanifa Sirazhevna Iskandarova was a Soviet and Russian educator who taught biology from 1955 to 1991. She taught at the Meshchegarov Secondary School, the Turnalinskaya School and the Maloyazskaya Secondary School. Iskandarova was a deputy of the eighth and ninth convocations of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1970 to 1979 and was elected a member of the Committee of Soviet Women on three occasions. She was named a Hero of Socialist Labour, a People's Teacher of the USSR and was a recipient of the Order of Lenin.