Sabir Adylov

Sabir Rakhimovich Adylov (Sobir Odilov in Uzbek) was born in Tashkent on 1 March 1932. In 1955 he graduated from the architecture faculty of the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent.

He began working in the Tashkent region: from 1955 to 1961 he was chief architect of Almalyk, and from 1962 to 1966 chief architect of the Tashkent Region. After the earthquake of 1966 he took part in the projects for rebuilding the centre of Tashkent.

He served as chief architect of Tashkent in 1970–1984 and again in 1990–1991 (some sources extend the first term to 1986). Over these years the city's master plan and the schemes for its central streets and squares were drawn up. In 1975–1985 and 1990–1991 he was deputy chairman of the Construction Committee of the Uzbek SSR.

Reference works list among his projects the planning of the centres of Tashkent, Andijan and Jizzakh (1970 and 1980), work associated with the Palace of Friendship of Peoples (1977) and the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR (1979), and the architectural parts of the monuments to Lenin (1974) and Yuri Gagarin (1979) in Tashkent. He headed the teams of architects who designed the stations of the Tashkent Metro and is credited as author or co-author of more than 80 housing and monument projects in Uzbekistan.

He was named Honoured Builder in 1967, received the State Prize of the USSR in 1975 for the architectural and planning solution of Tashkent's centre, and was made People's Architect of the USSR in 1981. He also held the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

In 1986 he headed a department of the Uzbek scientific research and design institute for the restoration of cultural monuments, and in 1989 became the institute's director. He died in Tashkent on 18 July 2002.