Tesha Zohidovich Zohidov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Теша Зоҳидович Зоҳидов, Russian: Тиша Захидович Захидов, Tisha Zakhidovich Zakhidov) was a Soviet-Uzbek zoologist, ecologist, and politician who served as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR from 1952 to 1956.
[1] After completing initial schooling in Kokand in 1924 he continued his education at the Tashkent Pedagogical College named after Narimonov, which he graduated from in 1926.
[2] In 1943, the People's Commissariat of the Uzbek SSR asked the university to conduct a comprehensive survey of a Southeast portion of the Kyzylkum Desert.
[3][4] From 1946 to 1952 he served as deputy director of the Institute of Botany and Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.
[2] He then worked on zoology encyclopedia, for which he was awarded the Beruniy state prize in 1971.