Agrippina Shin

Agrippina Vasilyevna Shin was born on 29 December 1958. In 1980 she graduated from the Tashkent Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (now the Muhammad al-Khwarizmi Tashkent University of Information Technologies) and began work as an engineer in its research laboratory.

From 1987 she worked at Vocational School No. 4 in Tashkent, later the Tashkent Vocational College of Information Technologies, as a master of industrial training, deputy director and, from 2001 to 2017, director. In 2015 she was elected to the Senate of the Oliy Majlis from Tashkent and remained a member until 2019.

After President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s decree created the Ministry of Preschool Education, Shin was appointed its first minister on 19 October 2017. She led it until 30 December 2022, when Hilola Umarova became minister of preschool and school education and Shin became first deputy minister.

From 23 March 2023 Shin headed the ministry’s Preschool Education Agency; the agency was abolished on 2 July 2024 and its functions passed to the ministry. In July 2024 a Cabinet of Ministers decision appointed her rector of Puchon University in Tashkent.

She holds the orders “Dustlik” and “Mehnat shuhrati”, and in 2020 received South Korea’s Order of Diplomatic Service Merit (Gwanghwa) for her contribution to friendship between Korea and Uzbekistan.