Bahrom Rahmonov

Bahrom Rahmonov was born in Tashkent in 1915. After secondary school he entered the Tashkent State Law Institute and graduated in 1936 as a lawyer. He came to literature later.

During the Second World War he served as a military investigator in the prosecutor’s office of a rifle regiment on the Southern Front, and in 1946 he returned to Tashkent. He first worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Uzbek SSR (1946–1948), then headed a department and served as deputy editor of the newspaper “Qizil O‘zbekiston” (1948–1950).

From 1950 to 1952 he was a department head at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, and in 1953–1955 he headed the Arts Administration of the Uzbek SSR Ministry of Culture. His journalistic articles date from the newspaper years.

His best-known play is the comedy “Yurak sirlari” (“Secrets of the Heart”, 1953), which used the example of a few doctors to satirise window-dressing and bribe-taking. It was staged by the director Toshxo‘ja Xo‘jayev. The drama “Surmaxon” (1955) followed and remained in the repertoire of the Muqimiy Musical Theatre for many years.

He also wrote “Bir to‘y mojarosi” (“A Wedding Scandal”, 1956, with a co-author), the drama “Mardlar qissasi” (“A Tale of the Brave”) about the civil war (1958), the plays “So‘nggi nusxalar” (“The Last Copies”, 1959–1960) and “Qilmish-qidirmish” (“As You Sow, So Shall You Reap”, 1960–1961), and several one-act comedies. In 1958–1961 he was a secretary of the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan.

Bahrom Rahmonov died in 1961. The National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan describes him as a playwright and journalist.