Usman Yusupov

Usmon Yusupov is a redirect to this article. For the administrative district in Uzbekistan named after the politician, see Usmon Yusupov (district) .

Usman Yusupov Jussupowitsch ( Russian Усман Юсупович Юсупов ; Uzbek Usmon Yusupovich Yusupov , born February 17, ^jul. / 1. March  1900 ^greg. In Kaftarchana , Oblast Fergana , Russian empire ; † 7. May 1966 in Jangijul , Uzbek SSR ) was a Soviet - Uzbek politician . From 1937 to 1953 he was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic .

life and career

Usman Yusupov was born in 1900 into an Uzbek working-class family in the Fergana region, which at that time still belonged to the Russian Empire. From 1918 Yusupov began to work in a cotton plantation. In 1926 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was then a union leader in Tashkent Oblast until 1928 . From 1928 to 1929 he was then, again in the Tashkent region, a regional committee of the party. He then moved to the Soviet-Uzbek Politburo and was party secretary there until 1937. In 1937, Akmal Ikramov , the former Uzbek general secretary for many years , de facto the head of government of the Uzbek Soviet Republic, was relieved of his post in the course of the Stalinist purges . In the same year, Yusupov became the new general secretary and remained in this position until 1953. During his reign, among other things, the construction of the Great Fergana Canal fell . Yusupov also acted vehemently and brutally against any nationalist tendencies in Uzbekistan. In 1939 he became a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union. In 1953, after 16 years in office, Amin Niyazov succeeded him as Secretary General of Uzbekistan. Yusupov was then still active in the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR until 1955, in 1956 he also resigned from the Supreme Soviet. He then largely withdrew from politics and ran a state farm near Tashkent. From 1962 until his death in May 1966 he ran a factory, also in the Tashkent region. At the age of 66 he finally died in Jangijul and was buried in Tashkent. He had been awarded the Order of Lenin six times .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article Usman Yusupov in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D127925~2a%3D~2b%3DUsman%20Jussupow
2. ↑ Abrol Kacharow on centrasia.ru: Великий сын узбекского народа Усман Юсупов