Tursunoy Saidazimova
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Tursunoy Saidazimova, occasionally transliterated as Tursunoi Saidazimova, was one of the first Uzbek actresses in the Uzbek SSR and one of the first to sing onstage without a face-veil. She was kille
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Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi
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Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi was an Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, teacher, and political activist. Niyazi is widely seen as one of the leading figures in the early development of modern
Tursunoy Saidazimova
…one of the first to sing onstage without a face-veil. She was killed by her husband in an honor killing just shortly after her career took off. She met Hamza Niyazi in 1926 in Tashkent who befriended her and convinced her to join an opera. From 1925 to 1927 she studied theater at the Uzbek Drama Studio in Moscow…
Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi in the 1920s
Niyazi in 1906
Niyazi in 1918
Niyazi's mausoleum in Shohimardon