This year Uzbekistan celebrates the 129th anniversary of the great Uzbek writer, founder of the National School of Novelists Abdulla Qodiri’s birth. In this regard, Uzbekistan Writers Union organized a press tour to the house-museum of Abdulla Qodiri.

Writers, students, members of the public, students of the Abdulla Qodiri Creative School, literature teachers gathered in the house where the writer lived. This house-museum was opened on the initiative of the Head of state on December 27, 2019, when the 125th anniversary of Abdulla Qodiri’s birth was widely celebrated.

The two-storey house with a summer terrace was built in 1928 by Abdulla Qodiri himself with the help of craftsmen. The writer lived in this house until 1937. The house is located in a vast area. It has four rooms, a separate summer terrace on the second floor and one room on the ground floor. In 2019, a library, exhibition and conference halls were additionally attached to the house-museum. There are currently 20 thousand copies of books in the library.

At the entrance to the house-museum you can see photos of the first editions of the books “Days Gone By” and “The Scorpion from the Altar”. A terrace of carved wood with columns is arranged around the museum. In the courtyard, statements of Uzbek and foreign writers about Qodiri's work are posted on the walls, testifying to the recognition of the writer not only in Uzbekistan, but also abroad.

A spacious room is designed for a detailed study of the writer's work. In other rooms, there is a gallery of paintings depicting the life, creativity, spiritual heroism of Qodiri. Paintings about the life and work of the writer were painted by the People's Artist of Uzbekistan Alisher Mirzayev.

There are also newspapers and magazines in which Qodiri's first books and works translated into other languages were published. In a small house in the corner of the yard, the writer worked, rested with his family.

As it became known, in this house he created the work “Obid Ketmon”. In the center of the house-museum there is a monument to the writer, created by the sculptor Bahrom Norboyev.

86 years ago, on December 31, 1937, a terrible event happened in this house. The officers arrested Qodiri without even allowing him to say goodbye to his sick son. On October 4, 1938, Qodiri was executed. And the decision on his execution was released on October 5.

The writer dreamed of independence. During the years of independence, the country began to pay great attention to the full-fledged study of Qodiri’s creativity.

In recent years, the name Abdulla Qodiri has been assigned to the creative school. The works of the writer are published and translated into foreign languages, scientists are researching, which means that Qodiri’s spiritual heritage is immortal!

Nazokat Usmonova, UzA