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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.