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AYBEK’S HOUSE-MUSEUM AS A PLACE OF INTEREST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Xusainova Munira
Student of the group 1-23, Tashkent Institute Of Textile
And Light Industry, Uzbekistan
Abstract:
The article provides information about the house-museum of one of the great figures
of Aybek. In the house-museum named after Aybek, there are many memories from which
young people can learn.
Keywords:
House, museum, exposition, shrine, place of creation, memories.
INTRODUCTION
The addresses of great figures have long served as one of the most revered shrines among the
people. In one of the districts of Tashkent, which until recently was called «Workers' town»,
there is a particularly sacred place for scientists and cultural figures.
From 1940 to 1968, that is, the last 28 years of his life, the great Uzbek writer and public figure,
academician Musa Toshmuhammad o’g’li Aybek lived and worked here. It has become a
tradition to gather in this house-museum on January 10 from the birthday of the writer. In this
regard, professors and students of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry, as well as
a number of creative activities will remember him in the house-museum with vivid memories.
During his lifetime, Aybek beat is known not only as a great writer, as a great man. Therefore,
speak in common parlance, as Tashkent residents from seven to seventy let, so the lovers of
literature from the near and far abroad considered it a breast to come to this house and settle this
brilliant Uzbek figure. Well-known writers, translators and literary critics from Moscow and
Kiev, Tbilisi and Baku, Almaty and Ashgabat remembered conversations with Aybek in this
house as unforgettable moments of their lives.
Aybek was born on January 10, 1905 in the Tashkent mahalla Gavkush. This mahalla was
located in the Khadrinsky quarter of Tashkent city, on the site of the Uzbek National Academic
Drama Theater [1]. The future writer was born in a low house, so during his studies he lived in
the hostel of the Navoi technical school. After his marriage, he lived in rented houses in the 4th
block of the city of Tashkent. Finally, in 1940, when land was given to scientists and cultural
figures, as well as government officials, factories and planties, he was also given 600 square
meters of land.
THE MAIN FINDINGS AND RESULTS
Aybek’s house-museum was opened on the first day for visitors. It took Zarifa Saidnosirova
more than five years to transfer the Aybek archive to the state.
Practically every day, employees of the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of
Sciences of Uzbekistan came here, taking part in the preparation for the publication of the 20
volume «Complete Works» and the creation of the museum exposition. Everyone who
contributed to the creation of the museum became famous literary critics, famous Uzbek
scientists. Among them are doctors of philological sciences Naim Karimov, Bakhtiyor Nazarov,
Gafor Muminov, Mashkhura Sultanova, Ninel Vladimirova, Rano Ibragimova, laureates of the
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Beruni State Prize, scientists and professors, authors of dozens of books and hundreds of articles
about Aybek’s work.
... They spent most of their time in Aybek's studio, working on carefully preserved manuscripts
of the author thanks to Zarifa Saidnosirova. Zarifa Saidnosirova not only collected these
manuscripts for many years, but also kept them with great love, and in the mid-1970s she took
on such an honorable and difficult task as the creation of a memorial house-museum of the writer.
The scientific and creative team did everything to make the house-museum come into being.
This team had to not only look through and organize the entire archive of the writer, but also
create a museum fund, engage in expositional work, create a literary exposition based on a
thematic exposition plan. How long did it take to renovate the old building and adapt it to a
museum, prepare equipment, build an exhibition and order a statue? Artists who create
exhibitions were involved in such works.
Aybek's poetry collections «Emotions» (1926), «Flowers of the Heart» (1929), «Torch» (1932),
«Dilbar - Daughter of the Period» (1932), «Revenge» (1933), “Bakhtigul and Sagindyk”,
“Missing in action” (1934), “Girl-heroine” (1936), “Gulnoz”, “Archer”, “Navoi” (1937)[4] Prose
heritage of 5 novels (“Blessed blood», 1940; « Navoi», 1942; «The sun does not darken», 1943-
1959; «Great way», 1967; «Breezes from the Golden Valley»(1949), 4 stories («Glorious
way»).In Search of Light», «Memories of My Childhood» and «Baby Alisher») and his
wonderful works [2, 3, 4, 5, etc.] are kept in the house-museum of Aybek. Anyone who visits the
museum will have the opportunity to view his work. Aybek's house-museum was founded in
1985 for the 80th anniversary of the writer. On the way to the museum, the visitor sees a bronze
statue of Aybek (I. Klinitsky) in the middle of a cozy garden surrounded by ornamental trees,
shrubs and flowers. It should be noted that Aybek loved nature with all his heart. Aybek's
attitude to nature is one of the unique manifestations of great love for the Motherland in the
writer's heart. He planted trees and flowers in his little garden. Among the trees he planted was a
large maple and a spruce in the shape of a spear, which for more than half a century have
adorned the museum's courtyard and delighted the eyes of visitors.
Aybek loved to sit here and relax in the trees. The museum is located in two buildings, built by
Aybek himself, divided into a memorial part, a literary exposition and a cozy garden. An
exposition reflecting the life and work of the writer is located in a 5-room building, built in
1940-1941. The basis of the literary exposition was Aybek's diaries, excerpts, letters,
photographic material, ethnography, samples of fine and applied art, literary and journalistic
works of the writer, as well as the covering all periods of the life and literary activity of the
writer. The memorial part of the museum embodies the living spirit and breath of the writer's
creative life, inextricably linked with the literary and historical exposition.
After passing the gate and entering, visitors begin to get acquainted with the exposition of the
Aybek House-Museum in the room on the left, which once served as a porch. At the entrance to
this part, which consists of 5 rooms - on the right - there is a small room. Here are exhibits
dedicated to the author's wife, the daughter of the first Uzbek artist and the first Uzbek chemist
Zarifa Saidnosirova and her father, the famous educator and businessman Saidnosir Mirjalilov
(1884-1937), a prominent representative of the Uzbek intelligentsia, who was shot in 1937 as an
«enemy of the people»: documents, materials, works of fine art. The exposition tells about the
activities of this remarkable figure in different directions, and elements of the historical interior
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tell about the social upheavals of 1929-1937, acquainting visitors with the strange and tragic fate
of S. Mirzhalilov.
The breath of a distant and already historical property can be heard from the exhibits presented
here. One of the central places in the hall is occupied by Zarifa Saidnosirova's painting «The
Mausoleum of Ahmad Yassavi», created in 1925. The second hall will acquaint you with the life
and work of Aybek in the 30-40s. During these years, the writer especially liked the origins of
the work of Navoi and Pushkin. He wrote poems and scientific articles dedicated to Navoi; He
was the first to translate Pushkin's poetic novel «Eugene Onegin» into Uzbek, the language of
one of the peoples of Central Asia. During the terrible storm of 1937, he was expelled from both
the Writers' Union and the Institute of Language and Literature, where he was in contact with
Cho’lpon, convicted as the son-in-law of S.Mirjalilov, the treasurer of Turkestan. Autonomous
government. In such a dangerous time, he and his family struggled to make ends meet.
Nevertheless, with a deep sense of responsibility towards literature, he wrote the novel Blessed
Blood. At a time when the novels Enemies of the People by Abdullah Kodiri and Cholpon were
banned, Blessed Blood inspired, encouraged and guided young Uzbek writers to write in the
novel genre.
The Navoi theme is in the center of the exposition of the third hall. Although Aybek's immortal
work about the great poet was completed during the war years, his international attention and
fame date back to the post-war period. This work, awarded a prestigious state award, was
translated into various foreign languages and became important for the peoples of the world in
terms of meeting the great Uzbek writer.
Entering the hall, the visitor will notice a torn off copy of the novel «Navoi» behind the barbed
wire. This is a gift from former Uzbek prisoners of war to Aybek's house-museum. The literary
and historical exposition ends with a small «Eastern Hall» with a carved ceiling in the style of
national carving. All interior items gave the room an oriental flavor. Aybek loved to work, relax
and chat with friends in the same room. In the building on the north side of the courtyard there
are memorial rooms: a hotel, a studio (on the first floor), a room of Zarifa Saidnosirova and a
hostel (on the second floor). The basis of the thematic-exposition plan (FER) of the permanent
exposition of the house-museum was made by N.Karimov, Sh.Rizaev, U.Yarmukhamedov. The
renewed exposition was created by N.Karimov, Sh.Rizaev, O.Tashmukhamedova, G.Shokirova
with the participation ofemoirs of his contemporaries about Aybek. This building houses a
literary exposition the exhibition artists V.Vyatkin and R.Gabdrakhmonov.
Annually on January 10, on the birthday of Muso Toshmuhammad o’g’li Aybek, professors and
students of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry visit the Aybek House-Museum.
They will be able to enjoy the rich spiritual and scientific heritage created by Muso
Toshmuhammad o’g’li Aybek.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, Muso Toshmuhammad o’g’li Aybek wrote in various fields, that is, he wrote
prose and poetry in all genres of fiction - ballads, lyric-epic epics, short stories, essays, short
stories, novels, popular (journalistic) articles, translated popular literature fraternal peoples,
ancient and European literature. He wrote extensive articles and reviews on literary criticism.
The actor also skillfully used all directions of the writing style, since the writer left his mark in
various areas of creativity. In his works of art and translations - the style of art and rhetoric, in
his articles and speeches - in the works of the formal and popular style, in literature and
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linguistics, in his translations we see examples of the scientific style, in the house-museum
dedicated to the teacher. Aybek’s creative school can serve as an example in the education of
young people.
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