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Saidmurodov, Saidsulton
Tajik motion picture director and playwright Saidsulton
Saidmurodov was born into the family of a People's Artist in Isfara on
May 5, 1905.
Saidmurodov graduated from the Moscow Labor Faculty Named
After M. I. Kalinin in 1927. In 1928 and 1929, he was the Director of
Education of Isfara. From 1929 to 1940, he was an instructor at the De-
velopmental Division of the Central Executive Committee of Tajikistan.
He began his creative work in the 1930s with the play entitled Shurishi
Vose' (The Vose' Uprising, 1935). One of the founders of the theater of
dramatic arts in Tajikistan, Saidmurodov has contributed the following
plays: Ruzhoi Guzashta (Bygone Days, 1939); Khari Jannati (Paradise
Donkey, 1941); and others.
Some of Saidmurodov's plays depict the lives of the coal miners of
Shurob. These include, Zafar va Zarrina (Zafar and Zarrina, 1939) and
Gahvorai Zarrin (Golden Cradle, 1974).
Saidmurodov joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in
1943. He became a Distinguished Artist of Tajikistan in 1957, and was
a recipient of the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor, and the
Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Saidmurodov died in Dushanbe on March 15, 1983.
Saidov
See Nuri, Said Abdullo.
Saidov, Abdurahmon
Tajik actor and director Abdurahmon Saidov was born into a family
of retailers in Bukhara in 1910.
Saidov joined the First Tajik State Theater (later the Lahuti Acad-
emy for Dramatic Arts) in 1930. He was actively involved in the pro-
motion of professional Tajik theater until he went to the front. His talent
and skill are particularly evident in the romantic, heroic, tragic, and co-

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