Nabi Rahimov

Nabi Rahimov
Наби Раҳимов Nabi Rahimov
Born	(1911-11-07)7 November 1911 Kokand, Fergana Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	23 November 1994(1994-11-23) (aged 83) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Citizenship	Russian Empire Soviet Union Uzbekistan
Occupation(s)	Actor and theater pedagogue
Years active	1918–1994
Awards	People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1950) Order of Lenin (1959) People's Artist of the USSR (1966) USSR State Prize (1967) Order of Outstanding Merit (2004)

Nabi Rahimov[a] (7 November 1911 — 23 November 1994) was an Uzbek and Soviet stage and film actor and a pedagogue. He received many awards and accolades for his work, including People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1950), Order of Lenin (1959), People's Artist of the USSR, (1966), USSR State Prize, (1967), and the Order of Outstanding Merit (2004).

Life andwork

Nabi Rahimov was born in Kokand, then the Russian Empire.[1] He began acting at the age of six and began working in theater at the age of 14 in 1926. In 1929, he began working at the Uzbek Theater named after Hamza in Tashkent, where he worked until his death 1994.

In 1945, Rahimov became a member of the Communist Party. In 1946, he began teaching at the Tashkent Theater Institute, where he taught until 1961.[2][3]

Throughout his career, Rahimov acted in many plays and movies, playing roles ranging from tragic characters to heroes,[4] working with many other famous Uzbek actors and actresses, including Sora Eshontoʻrayeva, Mannon Uygʻur, and Abror Hidoyatov. He played the roles of main characters in a wide variety of plays, including in foreign classics. In particular, he played the roles of Iago in Othello, Laertes in Hamlet, and Duke of Albany in King Lear, in addition to playing key roles in Uzbek dramas such as Boʻriboy in Togʻa va jiyanlar, Bobo Kayfiy in Mirzo Ulugʻbek, and Shokir ota in Qutlugʻ qon.[5] He also appeared in the celebrated Uzbek films Maftuningman (1958) and Kelinlar qoʻzgʻoloni (1984).

Rahimov died in Tashkent at the age of 83.[5]

Awards and accolades

• People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (24 February 1950)[6]
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (6 December 1951)[7]
• Order of Lenin (18 March 1959)[8]
• People's Artist of the USSR (15 December 1964)[9]
• State Hamza Prize (1967)[10]
• USSR State Prize (1977)[11]
• Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (11 March 1985)[12][13]
• Order of Outstanding Merit (23 August 2004)[14] (posthumously)

Notes

1. Nabi Rahimov is written as Наби Раҳимов in Uzbek Cyrillic; Russian sources typically spell his name as Наби Рахимов, which is romanized as Nabi Rakhimov.

References

1. "Рахимов Наби". Большая советская энциклопедия: Проба-Ременсы (in Russian). Vol. 21 (3rd ed.). Moscow: Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1970.
2. "РАХИМОВ , Наби". Театральная энциклопедия: Нежин-Сярев (in Russian). Vol. 4. Гос. науч. изд-во "Сов. энциклопедия". 1965.
3. "РАХИМОВ Наби". Краткая Российская энциклопедия: К-Р (in Russian). Vol. 2. Большая Российская энциклопедия. 2003. p. 1107.
4. Muhammadjonov, Zikir (2 April 1972). "Саҳнамиз сарвари". Совет Ўзбекистони (in Uzbek). p. 3.
5. "РАҲИМОВ Наби" [RAHIMOV Nabi] (PDF). Oʻzbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi (in Uzbek). Vol. 7. Tashkent: Oʻzbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi. 2004.
6. "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Узбекской ССР О присвоении почетных званий Узбекской ССР" [Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR On the conferment of honorary titles of the Uzbek SSR]. Pravda Vostoka (in Russian). 5 April 1950. p. 2.
7. "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями работников литературы и искусства Узбекской ССР" [Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR On awarding orders and medals to workers of literature and art of the Uzbek SSR] (PDF). Sovetskoe Iskusstvo (in Russian). 8 December 1951. p. 1.
8. "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями СССР работников искусства и литературы Узбекской ССР" [Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR On awarding orders and medals of the USSR to workers of art and literature of the Uzbek SSR]. Pravda Vostoka (in Russian). No. 65. 19 March 1959. p. 1.
9. "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О присвоении почетного звания народного артиста СССР артисту Государственного Узбекского академического театра драмы им. Хамзы Рахимову Н." [Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR On awarding the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR to the artist of the State Uzbek Academic Drama Theater named after Khamza Rakhimov N.] (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR (in Russian). No. 1. 6 January 1965. p. 7.
10. "Адабиёт, санъат ва архитектура соҳасидаги асарларга Ўзбекистон СССРнинг Ҳамза номидаги Давлат мукофотларини бериш тўғрисида" [On awarding the State Prizes named after Hamza of Uzbekistan SSR for works in the field of literature, art and architecture]. Sovet Oʻzbekistoni (in Uzbek). No. 263. 7 November 1967. p. 2.
11. "Постановление ЦК КПСС и Совета Министров СССР О присуждении Государственных премий СССР 1977 года в области литературы, искусства и архитектуры" (PDF). Sovetskaya kultura (in Russian). No. 91. 8 November 1977. p. 5.
12. Markov, V.S. (1998). "Fifty Years On: Heroes Find Their Awards". Military Thought: A Russian Journal of Military Theory and Strategy. 7 (4): 99.
13. Jubilee card index
14. "Указ Президента Республики Узбекистан О награждении посмертно деятелей науки, литературы и искусства, внесших огромный вклад в развитие науки и культуры Узбекистана". Narodnoe slovo (in Russian). No. 174–175. 26 August 2004. p. 1.

Bibliography

• Rahimov, Nabi (1980). "Инсонийлик санъати". Guliston (in Uzbek) (1): 26–27.
• Berdiyev, Yusuf (23 November 1991). "Наби Раҳимов - 80 ёшда УСТОД". O‘zbekiston Ovozi (in Uzbek). p. 4.