37 Notable alumni of
National University of Uzbekistan
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The National University of Uzbekistan is 900th in the world, 187th in Asia, and 1st in Uzbekistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from the National University of Uzbekistan sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Margarita Terekhova
- Occupations
- film actordirectorscreenwriteractorstage actor
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Margarita Borisovna Terekhova is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
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Gulnara Karimova
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- entrepreneurpoliticiansingerdiplomat
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Gulnara Islamovna Karimova is the elder daughter of Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan from 1991 to his death in 2016. She wielded considerable influence in Uzbekistan owing to her business dealings and family connections. From 2013, due to a conflict with her father, she began to rapidly lose influence.
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Roksana Babajan
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- actorsingerengineer
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Roksana Rubenovna Babajan is a Soviet and Russian pop singer and actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). Active participant in the protection of homeless animals, President of the Russian League for the Protection of Animals.
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Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva
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- diplomat
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Lola Islamovna Karimova-Tillyaeva is an Uzbek diplomat and daughter of Islam Karimov the former President of Uzbekistan and his wife, Tatyana Akbarovna Karimova. In 2012 she and her husband made it into Bilan magazine's list of Switzerland's 300 richest residents. Her older sister is business mogul Gulnara Karimova. She is also the founder of the perfume brand, The Harmonist Maison de Parfum.
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Iskander Makhmudov
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- Russian oligarchentrepreneur
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Iskander Kakhramonovich Makhmudov is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman.
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Nigmatilla Yuldashev
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- magistratepoliticianlawyer
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Nigmatilla Tulkinovich Yuldashev is an Uzbek lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Senate of Uzbekistan from 2015 until 2019. Previously he was Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2015.
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Aaly Tokombaev
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- journalistwriterpoet
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Aaly Tokombaev was a poet, composer, and a famous novelist who greatly influenced the Kyrgyz nation. In 1927 he graduated from the Middle Asian Community University (presently National University of Uzbekistan, in Tashkent. After graduation, he fully devoted himself to Soviet Kyrgyz literature.
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Erkin Vohidov
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- playwrightpoliticianpoet
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Erkin Vohidov was an Uzbek poet, playwright, literary translator, and statesman. In addition to writing his own poetry, Vohidov translated the works of many famous foreign poets, such as Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Muhammad Iqbal, Rasul Gamzatov, and Sergey Yesenin into the Uzbek language. Particularly noteworthy are his translations of Yesenin's works and Goethe's Faust.
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Rustam Atsimov
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- politician
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Rustam Sadykovich Asimov is an Uzbek politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2005 to 2017. He served as Minister of Finance from 1998 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2016.
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Abdulla Qahhor
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- writer
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Abdulla Qahhor was a Soviet and Uzbek novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. He is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel Qoʻshchinor chiroqlari (The Lights of Qoʻshchinor) and the 1958 novella Sinchalak.
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Allahshukur Pashazadeh
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- university teachermufti
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Haji Allahshükür Hummat Pashazade is the Sheikh ul-Islam and Grand Mufti of the Caucasus which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Karachay–Cherkessia, and Adygea in the Russian Federation. He is also the chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus.
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Oybek
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- novelistpoetwriterpolitician
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Muso Toshmuhammad oʻgʻli, known by the pen name Oybek, was an Uzbek, Soviet writer, poet and translator. He was the People's writer of the Uzbek SSR (1965), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1943), winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946), member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (since 1948). He was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 5th and 6th convocations.
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Tanzila Narbaeva
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- politician
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Tanzila Kamalovna Narbaeva is an Uzbek politician. She is the Chairperson of the Senate of Uzbekistan since 2019. She previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, and was the Chairperson of the Women's Committee from 2016 to 2019. She is married, and is the mother of two children.
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Muhammad Salih
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- dissidentpoliticianpoettranslatorlinguist
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Muhammad Salih is an Uzbek political opposition leader and writer. He was the opposition candidate in the 1991 Uzbek presidential election, the first and only time an Uzbek president has faced a serious challenger in an election.
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Kateryna Yushchenko
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1942
- Occupations
- scientistcomputer scientistprogrammer
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Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko was a Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International Academy of Computer Science. She developed one of the world's first high-level languages with indirect address in programming (pointers are analogous to this addressing), called Address (programming language). Over the period of her academic career, Yushchenko supervised 45 Ph.D. students. Further professional achievements include Yushchenko being awarded two USSR State Prizes, The USSR Council of Ministers Prize, The Academician Glushkov Prize, and The Order of Princess Olga. Yushchenko was the first woman in the USSR to become a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in programming.
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Sodiq Safoyev
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1976
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticiansports executive
- Biography
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Sodiq Solihovich Safoyev, also known as Sodyq Safayev (born 3 February 1954) is first deputy chairperson of the Senate of Uzbekistan's Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan from 14 March 2003 until 4 February 2005.
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Akgul Amanmuradova
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- tennis player
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Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova is an inactive professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. At 1.90 metres in height, she is one of the tallest female tennis players in history.
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Ulugbek Rashitov
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- taekwondo athlete
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Ulugbek Rashitov is an Uzbekistani taekwondo practitioner. In 2021, he won the gold medal in the 68 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 58 kg event at the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China.
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Rashid Kadyrov
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- politician
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Kadyrov, Rashid Hamidovich (usb. Rashitjon Hamidovich Qodirov; February 24, 1952) – former prosecutor general of Uzbekistan, served as prosecutor general in the government of Uzbekistan in 2004. He was arrested on February 22, 2018 on suspicion of abuse of office, abuse of power and bribery. Human rights groups and organisations voiced their concern that since being detained he has been subjected to torture to force him to incriminate himself.
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Khurshid Davron
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- playwrightpoet
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Khurshid Davron is an Uzbek poet, historical fiction writer, and literary translator. His work often presents Uzbekistan and nearby Central Asia historical and cultural perspectives. and Central Asia in the whole.
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Kadyr Gulamov
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- military personnel
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Kadyr Gafurovich Gulamov is an Uzbek politician who has served as Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan. To date, he was the first and only civilian leader of an Uzbek military department.
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Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy
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- politicianmathematician
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Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy was an Uzbek mathematician and historian who served as the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.
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Evgeniy Viktorovitsj Abdoellaev
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- editing staffwriterprose writerphilosopherliterary critic
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Evgeniy Viktorovich Abdullayev is a Russian poet, writer and critic living in Uzbekistan. He was born in Tashkent.
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Edvard Rtveladze
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1967
- Occupations
- numismatisthistorianpoliticianarchaeologist
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Edvard Vasilevich Rtveladze was a Soviet, Georgian, and Uzbek scientist. His credentials included membership in the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Doctor of Historical Sciences, the academician from the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and tenure as a professor.
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Mikhail Lyubich
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- university teachermathematician
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Mikhail Lyubich (born 25 February 1959 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a mathematician who made important contributions to the fields of holomorphic dynamics and chaos theory.
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Jahangir Mamatov
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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Jahangir Mamatov is a linguist, lexicographer, author, journalist, and a political analyst of Central Asian issues. He is a former member of the Uzbek Parliament and a co-author of Uzbekistan's Declaration of Independence. His writings, tenure in parliament, and other political activities were often greatly at odds with the Uzbek government. He was arrested but escaped into exile for many years. In 2005 he was instrumental in forming the democratic opposition group Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan (CDU) and became its first chairman. His writings are still banned in Uzbekistan.
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Musa Adyshev
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1947
- Occupations
- geologist
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Musa Mirzapayazovich Adyshev was a Soviet and Kyrgyz geologist who lived and worked in Kyrgyzstan. He is best known for identification of Tien Shan black-shale province and substantiation of its stratigraphic location.
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Margarita Ivanovna Filanovich
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1959
- Occupations
- historianarchaeologist
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Margarita Ivanovna Filanovich is a Soviet (later Uzbek) historian, archaeologist, and leader of a Tashkent archaeological expedition (formerly the Tashkent archaeological detachment).
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Sanjar Fayziev
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- tennis player
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Sanjar Fayziev is an Uzbekistani tennis player.
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Oleg Krasilnikov
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- biophysicist
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Oleg Vladimirovich Krasilnikov was a Soviet-born biophysicist who lived and worked in Uzbekistan and Brazil. His father, Vladimir Sergeyevich Krasilnikov, was a mining engineer who worked in the coal mines of Kyrgyzstan (Sulukta and Tash Kumyr). His mother, Ekatherine Yakovlevna Krasilnikova, was an economist.
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Zinaida Botschantzeva
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- botanist
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Zinaida Petrovna Botschantzeva was a Soviet and Russian botanist, cytologist, embryologist, and professor of the Tashkent university.
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Marinika Babanazarova
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- art historian
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Marinika Babanazarova is an Uzbekistani museologist and curator, mostly known for being a director of Nukus Museum of Art for thirty years after death of its founder Igor Savitsky.
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Maimul Ahsan Khan
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- university teacherwriterlegal scholar
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Maimul Ahsan Khan is a Bangladeshi scholar of jurisprudence and comparative law and a former professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka. His expertise encompasses jurisprudence, Islamic law, Islam and Muslim culture, political science, human rights, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Oriental studies. He was awarded IIE-SRF fellowship for his academic contribution by the Institute of International Education (IIE). In 2012, the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund featured him as one of the persecuted academics in the world. Khan is currently serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Leading University.
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Ksenia Kepping
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- linguist
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Ksenia Borisovna Kepping was a Russian Tangutologist, known principally for her study of Tangut (or Mi-nia) grammar. She is also known for her theories on the tantric nature of the Tangut state, and for her proposition of the existence of two contrasting forms of Tangut language, the common language used in most surviving Tangut texts, and a ritual language preserved only in a few ritual odes.
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Tashmukhamed Alievich Sarymsakov
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1936
- Occupations
- mathematicianphysicist
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Toshmuhammad Sarimsoqov was an Uzbek mathematician who served as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR from 1947 to 1952.
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Svetlana Gerasimova
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- politician
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Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimova is the Director of Secondary School No. 50 in Tashkent. She is an Honored Educator of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a People's Teacher of Uzbekistan (2000), and the former chairperson of the Russian Cultural Center of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2003–2009). She also served as a senator from 2005 to 2010.
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Piotr Opaliński
- Enrolled in the National University of Uzbekistan
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- orientalistdiplomat
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Piotr Andrzej Opaliński is a Polish diplomat, serving as an ambassador to Pakistan (2015–2021).
