Halima Nosirova

Halima Nosirova or Halima Nasyrova (Khalima Nasyrova) was a Soviet and Uzbek singer of Uzbek music. She also started her creative activities as a drama actress in 1927 and was a popular artist of the USSR.
Biography
She was born on December 29, 1913 (according to other sources, December 7, 1912) in the village of Taglyk, near Kokand (now in the Fergana Region of Uzbekistan). She was the ninth child in the family and was raised in an orphanage.
From 1924 to 1927, she studied at the Baku Theater Technical College (now the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts) along with a group of young people from Uzbekistan. From 1934 to 1937, she studied at the Uzbek Opera Studio of the Moscow Conservatory.
Starting in 1927, she was an actress in the Central State Uzbek Theater in Samarkand (from 1929, the State Uzbek Drama Theater named after Hamza in Tashkent, and from 2001, the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theater).
From 1930 to 1986, she was a soloist in the Uzbek Music and Drama Theater (from 1939, the State Uzbek Opera and Ballet Theater, now the Navoi Theater) in Tashkent. She became a leading soloist in 1939. She performed in both classical repertoire and Uzbek national operas.
She also performed as a concert singer, singing Uzbek folk songs as well as songs from other nations, including Tajik, Kazakh, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, and others.
She toured abroad, including in East Germany, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, and other countries. From 1979 to 1986, she taught at the Department of Eastern Music at the Tashkent Conservatory. She was a deputy of the 5th convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
She passed away on January 3, 2003, in Tashkent, and was buried in the Chigatay Cemetery.
Creative work
During her career, Nasirova played many roles and participated in parties and films:
Roles
"The Inspector General" by N. Gogol - Maria Antonovna
"Princess Turandot" by K. Gozzi - Adelma
"Arshin Mal Alan" by U. Hajibekov - Gyulchohra
" Inside" by M. Mukhamedov and K. Yashen - Gyulsara
"Farhad and Shirin" by V. Uspensky - Shirin
"Khalima" by G. Zafari - Khalima
Parties
1939 - "Buran" by M. A. Ashrafi and S. N. Vasilenko - Nargyul
1940 - "Leyli and Majnun" by T. S. Sadykov and R. M. Glière - Leyli
1942 - "Ulughbek" by A. F. Kozlovsky - Sin Dun-fan
1944 - "Carmen" by G. Bizet - Carmen
1949 - "Gyulsara" by T. S. Sadykov and R. M. Glière - Gyulsara
1949 - "Tahir and Zuhra" by T. Jaliilov and B. Brovtsyn - Zuhra
1962 - "Hamza" by S. Babaev - Saodat
"Maysara's Pranks" by S. A. Yudakov - Maysara
"Zaynab and Omon" by B. I. Zeydman, T. S. Sadykov, Yu. Radzhaby, D. Zakirov - Zaynab
"The Song of Khorezm" by M. Yusupov - Bakhor
"Return" by Ya. R. Sabzanov - Khatidzhe-khanum
Filmography
1940 - "Asal" - Asal
1943 - "A Gift from the Motherland" (musical film)
1944 - "Concert of the Five Republics" (musical film)
1958 - "Charmed by You" - Cameo
1960s - "Khalima Nasirova" (documentary)
Honours and awards
People's Artist of the USSR (1937)
Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1937, 1959)
Four Orders of the Badge of Honour (1939, 1944, 1957, 1965)
Two Stalin Prizes (1942, 1951)
Two Orders of Lenin (1950, 1951)
State Hamza Prize (1968)
Order of the October Revolution (1973)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984)
Order of Outstanding Merit (2000)
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Publications
Солнце над Востоком. Записки актрисы. М., 1962.
Мен ўзбек қизиман. Т., 1968.
Literature
НАСЫ́РОВА ХАЛИМА // Большая Российская Энциклопедия
Саидов А. Х. Насырова. Таш., 1974
Юлдашбаева Т.А. Х. Насырова. Таш., 1971; она же. Певцы узбекского оперного театра. Таш., 1985
Франк Е.В. Х. Насырова. М.; Л., 1950
References
External links
Peoples' Artist of the Soviet Union Antonina Nezhdanova and Peoples' Artist of Uzbekistan Khalima Nasyrova
Бахриддин Насриддинов (Bahriddin Nasriddinov, Honoured Cultural Worker of Uzbekistan). "ХАЛИМЫ СОЛОВЬИНОЕ ПЕНЬЕ"
1913 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Uzbekistani actresses
20th-century Uzbekistani women politicians
20th-century Uzbekistani women singers
People from Fergana Oblast
Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts alumni
Moscow Conservatory alumni
Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
People's Artists of the USSR
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Uzbeks
Soviet actresses
Soviet music educators
Soviet operatic sopranos
Soviet women in politics
Soviet women singers
Uzbekistani actresses
Uzbekistani women singers