Uygun biography

Born on May 1 14 in the village of Merke, Turkestan Territory, now in the territory of the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan. From a family of employees. In the year he arrived in Tashkent and entered the pedagogical college, which he graduated from the year. From the year - a teacher of the Uzbek language and literature in an agricultural technical school. He made his debut in the press in the year, his first poems were published in the Republican magazines “YP Yuzi”, “Maorif Va Ukitguvchi”, “Alanga”.

In the year, these poems were published by a separate collection of “Joy of Spring”. He entered the year, and in the year he graduated from the Pedagogical Academy in Samarkand. Then he worked in it as a teacher, then in the publishing house, he was a researcher at the Uzbek Institute of Cultural Construction, an assistant professor at the Uzbek branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

The themes of his scientific works are related to issues of the history and theory of Uzbek literature. In the first collections of poems “The Joy of Spring” -, “Dzantemir” -, “Winds of Ukraine” -, “Second Book” -, “Country of the Sun” - said about himself as a poet of a modern topic, writes about the construction of a new life, about the formation of a new Soviet man, about the friendship of peoples.

During the Great Patriotic War, collections of poems “Songs of Victory”, “Anger and Love” and others were published, which are dominated by the theme of the Motherland, opposing the enemy invasion. A huge event in the cultural life of Uzbekistan was the staging of his play “Alisher Navoi”, together with I. Sultanov, one of the best works of Uigun. Despite the fact that after the Great Patriotic War, Uyghun was considered one of the largest representatives of Uzbek literature, in the period his work became the object of serious attacks for criticism, often unreasonable, indiscriminate and reached direct insults.

Unable to withstand character and having gone through humiliating procedures of public repentance and recognition of errors, Uigun remained among officially recognized poets. But everything that happened negatively affected his work, especially in poetry: verses are propaganda and journalistic, the depth of immersion in the problems of life and human characters were replaced by pathos, exclamations, calls, and slogans.

Apparently, recognizing the fall of the artistic level of poetry, he almost abandoned it with the latest collections of poems became “Gift”, “Uzbekistan” “Poems” and, after a long break, “Song of Love”, working in the genre of plays, essays and travel notes. The scenic works of Uygun are dramas on the topics of modernity: “Song of life”, “Navbahor”, “Altynkul”, “Murderer”, “Friends”, “Simple”, “Doubt”, “Hurriyat”, “Flight”, “Blub”, “Early Spring”, “Risky joke”, “Two Eras”, about the construction of the Farhad hydroelectric power station, as well as historical dramas, and historical drama “Mother”, “Abu Raikhan Beruni”, “Avicenna”, “Zebuniso Begim”.

In total, he wrote over 20 plays. One of the largest literary functionaries of Uzbekistan: Chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan, a long -term member of the board and a member of the Presidium of the Union of Writers. Editor of Shark Yulduzi and Mushtum magazines. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.

He translated by A. Shakespeare, the drama of A. Chekhov, “The Seagull”, the poems of T. Shevchenko, I. Chavchavadze, S. For outstanding achievements in the development of Soviet literature and in connection with the eighty years of birth by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 14, Uyguna Rakhmatullah, was awarded to the Uzbek.

Order of Lenin and the Golden Medal "Sickle and Hammer". He lived in the city of Tashkent. He died on April 21. He was buried in Tashkent at the Chigatai cemetery. The Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR was awarded 3 orders of Lenin, the People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR