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Sharof Rashidov | |
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Шароф Рашидов | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan | |
| In office 15 March 1959 – 31 October 1983 | |
| Preceded by | Sobir Kamolov |
| Succeeded by | Inomjon Usmonxo‘jayev |
| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| In office 21 August 1950 – 24 March 1959 | |
| Preceded by | Sobir Kamolov |
| Succeeded by | Amin Niyazov or Yadgar Nasriddinova |
| Candidate member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th , 25th, 26th Politburo | |
| In office 31 October 1961 – 31 October 1983 | |
| Full member of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Central Committee | |
| In office 31 October 1961 – 31 October 1983 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 November 1917 Sovungarlik, Jizzakh Region, Russian Republic (present-day Uzbekistan) |
| Died | 31 October 1983 (aged 65) Ellikqala District, Karakalpak ASSR, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (from 1939) |
Sharof Rashidovich Rashidov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Шароф Рашидович Рашидов; Russian: Шараф Рашидович Рашидов, romanized: Sharaf Rashidovich Rashidov; 6 November [O.S. 24 October] 1917 – 31 October 1983) was a Communist Party leader in the Uzbek SSR and a CPSU Central Committee Politburo candidate member between 1961 and 1983.
Early life[change | change source]
Rashidov was born shortly before the Russian Revolution on 6 November [O.S. 24 October] 1917 to an Uzbek peasant family in Sovungarlik village, located in what is now the Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan. Although his family was poor, both of his parents were among the few that were literate at the time, and they wanted their six children to be educated.[1] Sharod Rashidov's father, Rashid Khalilov was a farmer who joined the Qizil karvon kolkhoz,[2] and his mother Kuysinoy was a housewife.[3]
Initially after graduating from the Jizzakh Pedagogical College in 1935 he worked as a schoolteacher in a secondary school[4] before starting to work for the regional Samarkand newspaper Leninsky put. He then graduated from the philological faculty of Samarkand State University in 1941, but later that year he was deployed the the Eastern Front as a junior lieutenant.
After the war he went on to attend in absentia the All-Union Party School under the Central Committee of the Party, graduating in 1948.
Political career[change | change source]
Biography[change | change source]
Born the day before the Russian Revolution to a poor peasant family in Jizzakh, Uzbekistan, Sharof Rashidov worked as a teacher, journalist and editor for a Samarkand newspaper. He returned home in 1942 with wounds suffered on the German front in World War II. He became head of the Uzbekistan Writers Union in 1949, and was elected to the post of Chairman of the Praesidium of the Uzbek Supreme Soviet in 1950. In 1959, he became First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party,[5] a post he held to his death in 1983.[6]
In the Soviet Union his name became synonymous with corruption, nepotism and the Uzbek cotton scandal of the Era of Stagnation.[7] With orders from Moscow to grow increasing quantities of cotton, the Uzbek government responded by reporting miraculous growth in land irrigated and harvested, and record improvements in production and efficiency. The Uzbek leadership used these exaggerated figures to transfer substantial amounts of wealth from central Soviet funds into Uzbekistan.[8]: 28
Rashidov died on 31 October 1983 in Ellikqala District, Karakalpak ASSR, Uzbek SSR. Immediately after his death, rumors spread that he had realized he was about to be disgraced and thus committed suicide.[9] However, this has never been confirmed.[10]
Legacy[change | change source]
After Uzbekistan's independence, Rashidov's image was rehabilitated by Uzbek President Islam Karimov as a symbol of national strength against detrimental Soviet central planning.[8]: 41
Personal life[change | change source]
His daughter Gulnara married Uzbek statesman and diplomat Abdulaziz Kamilov. His granddaughter Sayyora Rashidova was a chemist who was a member of the Oliy Majlis.
See also[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Kholbekova, Umida (5 November 2020). "В человеке всё должно быть прекрасно: и лицо, и одежда, и душа, и мысли…". Samarqand Vestnik (in Russian). Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ↑ Матбуотимиз фидойилари (in Uzbek). Ŭzbekiston. 1993. ISBN 978-5-640-01590-4.
- ↑ Musurmanov, Bekzod (31 October 2019). "Ўқитувчи, ижодкор, давлат арбоби". zarnews.uz (in Uzbek). Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ↑ Qayumov, Laziz (1978). Современники: литературно-критические очерки (in Russian). Издательство литературы и искусства имени Гафура Гуляма.
- ↑ "Sharaf Rashidov, 65; Soviet Politburo Aide". The New York Times. Vol. 133, no. 45849. 1 November 1983. p. B6.
- ↑ Sengupta, Anita (2010). The Formation of the Uzbek Nation-State: A Study in Transition. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-585-48273-6. OCLC 1030402348.
- ↑ Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario (2 April 2020). "Sharaf Rashidov and the International Dimensions of Soviet Uzbekistan". Central Asian Survey. 39 (2): 185–201. doi:10.1080/02634937.2019.1708269. S2CID 214452935.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Peterson, Derek Edward (2013). When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness (Master's thesis). Ohio State University.
- ↑ Alexandrov, Mikhail (3 April 1996). "Uzbekistan: Technology". Former Soviet Republic - Central Asia Political Discussion List. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
- ↑ William Fierman, ed. (1991). Soviet Central Asia: The Failed Transformation. Boulder: Westview Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-8133-7907-5.