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Cho'lpon

Died in 1938

Abdulhamid Sulaymon o'g'li, known as Cho'lpon, was born in 1897 in Andijan, the son of a literate man. He studied at the traditional school, then at a Russian school for natives, and in 1914 entered the press in Tashkent. A journalist and poet, he ran a dramatic art studio in Moscow from 1924 to 1926, wrote plays, and was the first to translate Shakespeare into Uzbek, alongside Pushkin and Gorky. Arrested in 1937, he was shot in Tashkent on 4 October 1938, the same day as Fitrat and Qodiriy.

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