P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Burhonov, Muzaffar

Tajik ballet artist Muzaffar Aslievich Burhonov was born on July 3,

1941, in Dushanbe.

Son of Asliddin Burhonov, he graduated first from the Leninabad

Academy of Choreography in 1961 and later from the Moscow State

Institute of Ballet in 1970. In 1961, he became the soloist and Ballet

Master of the Aini Theater for the Academy of Opera and Ballet.

Burhonov is a talented artist; there is something new and fresh in

each of the characters that he creates. He participated, alongside Malika

Sobirova, in the International Festival of Ballet Artists in Bulgaria, in

1964, a performance that garnered them a silver medal. The roles he

created include Borband in Korsar (Karsar), by Adan, 1961; Shohzoda

Zigfrid in Kuli Quvon (Swan Lake), by P. Tchaikovsky, 1962; Lenin in

Bo Rohi Ra'di Ghurron (On the Way of the Raging Thunder), by Q.

Qaroev, 1963; Zafar and Qodir in Afsonai Kuhsor (The  Legend of the

Highlands) and Pisari Vatan (Son of the Motherland), both by U. Ter-

Osipov, 1964, 1967; Avbosh in Khonum va Avbosh (The Lady and the

Rogue), by D. Shostakovich, 1967; Romeo in Romeo va Julietta

(Romeo and Juliet), by S. Prokofiev, 1968; Bazil' in Don-Kikhot (Don

Quixote), by L. Minkus; Majnun in Laili va Majnun (Layli and

Majnun), by Balasanian, 1970; Teymurmalik and Chingiz Khon in

Teymurmalik (Taimurmalik), by M. Ashrafi, 1972; and others.

Burhonov has also directed some of the above-mentioned works,

 

in-

cluding Pisari Vatan, Laili va Majnun, and Teymurmalik. While per-

forming these roles, Burhonov traveled to Bulgaria, Canada, Italy, Iran,

Turkey, and Mongolia.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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In 1971, he became a People's Artist of Tajikistan. He also is the re-

cipient of the Badge of Honor, and the Order of the Presidium of the

Supreme Soviets of Tajikistan, Belarus, and Ukraine. Burhonov left

Tajikistan for Poland in 1993,.