Science and culture in the war years

During the war poets and writers (Hamid Olimjon, G‘afur G‘ulom, Oybek, Abdulla Qahhor, Maqsud Shayxzoda, Sulton Jo‘ra and others) raised patriotic themes in poems, epic poems and journalism. Performers formed 30 concert brigades which, according to the textbook, gave 35,000 concerts for soldiers at the front and 26,000 in hospitals. Historical and military plays became more common in theatre repertoires, for example “Muqanna”, “Alisher Navoiy” and “Jaloliddin Manguberdi”. On the basis of a Moscow decision of September 1943, the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR was founded in Tashkent on 4 November 1943, and the mathematician Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy (1897–1970) became its first president. 31 higher education institutions and 7 military academies were evacuated to Uzbekistan from Moscow, Leningrad, Kyiv, Minsk and other cities, and 375 well-known scholars came to Tashkent alone. More than 200 writers and poets from occupied areas, including Anna Akhmatova and Aleksey Tolstoy, also came; together with them the almanac “We Shall Win” and the anthology “Poets of Uzbekistan to the Front” were created.