Farida Yakubovna Artikova was born on March 20, 1953, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to a working-class family. She is Uzbek. She graduated from Secondary School No. 135 in 1970 and, on November 1 of that year, began working as a laboratory assistant in the General Mechanics Department of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Tashkent State University. From 1972 to 1977, she studied full-time in the Geography Department of Tashkent State University, majoring in Land Hydrology, specializing in hydrology engineering. After completing her studies, she worked as an engineer in the hydrographic department of the Hydrometeorological Service of Uzbekistan from 1977 to 1979. On February 1, 1979, she joined the Land Hydrology Department of the Geography Faculty as an engineer. Since 1985, she has been a lecturer in the department. Under the supervision of Professor G.N. Trofimov, she defended her PhD thesis on the topic: “The Aral-Sarykamysh Lake System at the End of the Late Pleistocene – Holocene (History, Levels, Water Balances).” In 2005, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Geographical Sciences. On August 30, 2019, she was approved for the academic rank of Associate Professor. She currently works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Land Hydrology and Meteorology.
Associate Professor
Candidate of Sciences, PhD 
Land hydrology and meteorology 