Malik Qayumovich Qayumov[a] (circa 1911[b] – 29 April 2010) was a Soviet-Uzbek filmmaker, actor, and the first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Uzbek SSR from 1976 to 1986.

At the ago of six Malik began attending an Islamic Uzbek school, a madrassa based in an adobe building where the teacher was an imam.

The curriculum was completely limited to study of religious scripture, but he eventually quit and started attending a secular school whose teacher was an academic.

[10] The excavation of Timur's tomb in Gur-Emir was conducted by Russian anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov[11] in late June 1941.

[1][5] In addition to working as a cameraman he acted in various movies and held the post of first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Uzbekistan from 1976 to 1986 and 1988 to 1996.

[1] His prominent works include a short five-minute film titled “Paranja” about the hujum, the campaign to wipe out feudalism and religious terrorism in Central Asia, "Afghanistan.

[24] As a filmmaker, he was one of the few Soviet Muslims who managed to make Hajj, having been granted permission for the trip so he could film some of Mecca for a documentary.

He gave interviews to the press where he remained adamant that the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union would not have happened if the tomb of Timur was not opened.

He on 29 April 2010 while visiting relatives in Moscow, and his remains were repatriated to Uzbekistan where he was buried in the Sagban cemetery of Tashkent with an Islamic funeral.