The metro station in Tashkent named after him was renamed to Novza
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Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi
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 Uzbek literature. He is generally considered the first Uzbek playwright, the founder of modern Uzbek musical forms, as well as the founder of Uzbek social realism. During the Russian Revolution, he s…
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Born 22 February 1889 · Died 18 March 1929 · Q45124
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2001· 1 entry
The State Drama Theater named after Hamza was renamed to omit his name
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1989· 1 entry
A Soviet coin featuring an image of Hamza was issued in honor of his 100th birthday
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1967· 1 entry
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan established the State Hamza Prize to recognize outstanding achievement in literature, arts, and architecture
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1949· 1 entry
And had 197 poems that he had written from 1903 to 1904
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1940· 1 entry
And the government replaced it with a museum of atheism
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1929· 1 entry
Died 1929-03-18.
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1923· 1 entry
(in some sources 1922), Hamza married Zaynab (Zina) Ahmadjonova (in some sources Fayzullina), with whom he had a son, Abbos
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1920· 1 entry
Becoming one of the first Uzbeks in the Party, and frequently engaged in Soviet politics
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1918· 3 entries
Which deals primarily with the revolutionary upheaval in Western Turkestan and with the institution of arranged marriage
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And Burungi qozilar yoxud Maysaraning ishi (Old Judges or the Case of Maysara) in 1926
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Hamza co-founded an Uzbek theater troupe along with Muhitdin Qoriyoqubov
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1916· 1 entry
Portrays a young couple, the 18-year-old son of a well-to-do family and the 17-year-old daughter of a craftsman
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1915· 1 entry
Went back to wearing traditional Uzbek dress in 1920
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1912· 1 entry
Hamza married his first wife was Aksinya (in some sources Zoya) Uvarova, a Russian woman who had worked as a nanny to a wealthy family in Kokand
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1911· 1 entry
Was soon closed after the clergy accused him of promoting atheism, but he reopened it and went on to try to open schools in other towns such as Margilan
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1909· 1 entry
And also visited Turkmenistan in his travels
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-02-22.
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