Education
He studied at Moscow Fine Arts School, Almaty Fine Arts College and Tashkent Fine Arts Institute.
He studied at Moscow Fine Arts School, Almaty Fine Arts College and Tashkent Fine Arts Institute.
Author of numerous monuments in Uzbekistan, including the first monument to Babur in Andijan, Uzbekistan’s second city. This statue has its own history of controversy during the Soviet era when the authorities sought to suppress works expressing regional identity, but is now a major landmark in Ferghana valley. Rashit works in different media ranging from bronze and brass to stone, wood and fire-clay.
In July 2009 Rashit presented the United States Embassy in Tashkent with a sculpture he made in memory of the people who died when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.
In 2007 Rashit has exhibited Trier, Germany. During 2002-2005 Rashit worked in Moscow with a group of palaeontologists from the Academy of Science on the Mammoth Fauna restoration project
Some of his works inspired by the Ice Age fauna are exhibited in Timirayzev Museum, Moscow. Projects, like ‘The Pearl of Uzbekistan’, ‘The Alley of Poets’, ‘Monument to 26 Pilot-Heroes of World World War II’, and ‘The Horse’ at the entrance to the city of Asaka are now well known works of cultural interest in Uzbekistan.
He is a Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan.