P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mulloqandov, Avner

Tajik singer and composer Avner Kuinovich Mulloqandov was born

into a family of workers in Samarqand on March 28, 1911. He joined

the CPSU in 1940.

Mulloqandov graduated from the Leninabad School of Music in

1931. Between 1933 and 1934, he performed with the Jewish Musical

Theater of Samarqand. In 1940, after finishing the one-year directorial

course at the Uzbekistan Dramatic Theater, he relocated to Tajikistan to

work at The Aini State Theater for Opera and Ballet. The roles he

created in this theater include Ni'mat in Halima (Halima), by Gh.

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