Uyg‘un (Birth name Uzbek: Rahmatulla Otaqoʻziyev, Russian: Рахматулла Атакузиев, romanized Rakhmatulla Atakuziev, Уйгун (Uighun/Uyghun/Uygun), 14 May [O.S.

He received many high honors for his work including Hero of Socialist Labour and People's Poet of the Uzbek SSR.

1 May] 1905 as Rahmatulla Otaqoʻziyev in the village of Merki, (located in present-day Jambyl oblast, Kazakhstan) to a working-class family.

[6] His later works were somewhat critical of the Soviet government, such as his drama Shubha in 1961 which emphasized the problems with the cult of personality surrounding the Stalin era, especially in rural areas.

He also wrote comedies, such as Parvona in addition for various historically themed works dramatizing the lives of famous people from Central Asia such as al-Biruni, Ibn Sina, and Zeb-un-Nissa.