Turob Tola (pseudonym; surname Tolakhojayev, 1918.24.12, Turbat village of Shymkent region of South Kazakhstan - 20.04.1990, Tashkent) was a poet, dramatist and cinematographer. He was awarded People's Poet of Uzbekistan (1988) and Honored artist of Uzbekistan (1967). Early life Turob Tola began to engage in creative activities at age of 15. Along with poems and epics, librettos for operas and ballets, various prose works, he made a significant contribution to the development of Uzbek singing art. His poems such as "Hayo bilan", "Sumbula", "Kochalar", "Doppi tikdim", "Sartarosh qoshigi" were set to music. He studied at the Tashkent Academy of Theater Education (1934-1938), the evening department of the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute (1938-1941). Career He was a literary worker at the newspaper Yosh Leninchi (1935-41). His first collection She'rlar was published in 1939. He worked as an announcer at the State Broadcasting Committee of Uzbekistan (1935-48), literary secretary at the editorial office of the newspaper Kyzil Uzbekiston (1948-49), instructor at the party offices (1949-51). He wrote "Shodligim" (1941), "Tabassum" (1944), "Baxt tongotari" (1948), and "Muborakbod" (1949). He was Uzbekistan Editor at the State Publishing House (1953-57) and head of the script department at the Uzbekfilm studio (1957-62). In this period he wrote "Bolalar dostoni" (1950), "Qanotlan, qoshiqlarim" (1955), and " Tanlangan asarlar" (1958). He served as secretary at the Cinematographers' Union (1962-67) and head of the Department of Arts under the Ministry of Culture (1967-76). He authored "Oromijon" (1961), "Gulyor" (1968), and "Oftob nayzada" (1974). He was director of the Hamza Theater (1977- 79), ad worked as a head (1980-90) of the Tashkent regional branch of the Union of Writers and the Center for the Promotion of Literature. Worksand In his epics such as "Hamiyat" (1948), "Shahlo", "Zamon Hukmi" (1968), "Suyuk Momo" (1975), "Tramvayda topilgan daftar" (1978), Turob Tola refers to the life of his hardworking contemporaries, as well as the pages of the historical past, scrolling and trying to look at the important events that took place in past with the vision of modern times. He wrote "Kizbuloq" (1968), "Momo yer", "Quvvai qahkhaha" ("Nodirbegim") (1969) and other plays. In 1969-70, after translating F. Schiller's tragedy Maria Stewart into Uzbek, he reworked the drama Quvvai qahqaha, dedicated to the tragic life of the famous Uzbek poetess and brought it to the stage under the name Nodirabegim (staged in Hamza, Muqimi and other theaters). At the