12 October] 1917 — 10 May 1998) was an Uzbek soldier in the Red Army during World War II who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 May 1944.

[1][2] At the start of the war he was a squad commander in the 8th Separate Light Transport Unit, having arrived on the warfront in October 1941.

In June 1943 he became a squad commander in the 97th Separate Motorized Engineering Battalion, where he distinguished himself during the Novorossiysk-Taman operation.

His squad restored the bridge in just three hours despite taking intense enemy fire, allowing the tanks to advance.

He served as the chairman of the board of the Union of Artists of the Uzbek SSR until 1955, and then worked as director of the State Art Museum of Uzbekistan.