P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Qurbonov, Suhrob

Tajik painter Suhrob Usmonovich Qurbonov was born into a family

of workers in Qurghonteppa on July 2, 1946. He joined the CPSU in

1973.

Qurbonov graduated from the Moscow State Institute for Painting in

1971. From 1971, he has been involved in the creation of a series of

monumental works that appear in the Minutka Teahouse (1973), the

fresco in the Political Culture Center (1974), gobelins for the Firdowsi

State Library and the State Circus building (1978-1980), decorative

composition called The Poets in the Union of Writers of Tajikistan

(1981), mosaics for the building of the hydropower station in Norak

(1981), Davidani Aspi Ozod (The Running of the Free Horse), Bo Fikr

Vujud Doshtam (I Existed With Thought), Zamini Man (My Land), and

others

Qurbonov also has participated in a long series of exhibitions lo-

cally, as well as internationally in Moscow, Rumania, Czechoslovakia,

Germany Mongolia, India, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. His paintings

depict historical, social, and cultural events in sincere and realistic

terms. His main contributions include Sokhtmoni Norak (The Norak

Building), Poizdi Avvalin (The First Train), Muhoriba (War), Dugo-

naho (Friends), Javononi Tojikiston (Tajikistan's Youth), Tui (Celebra-

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tion), Khotira (Memory), Lenin, Revolutsia va Rassom ( Lenin, Revolu-

tion and the Painter), and many others.

Qurbonov became a People's Artist of Tajikistan, and of the Soviet

Union in 1986. He has been the Head of the Union of Artists of Tajiki-

stan since 1982. He received of the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1977.

Qurbonov has traveled to Germany, America, Finland, Switzerland,

Russia, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iran, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria.