Background
Chingiz Akhmarov was born in Troitsk in 1912.
Chingiz Akhmarov was born in Troitsk in 1912.
Akhmarov participated in decoration projects for Moscow’s and Tashkent"s subway stations and many museums across the Soviet Union. His family left Troitsk for Karshi in 1931, from where they moved again to Samarkand. Akhmarov enrolled in the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow in 1935.
The institute was relocated to Samarkand during the war, and Akhmarov graduated from there in 1942.
Beginning 1944, Akhmarov launched into an artist"s life. Between 1944 and 1947, he painted murals in the Alisher Navoi Theater in Tashkent.
This body of work resulted in a state award. Akhmarov was conferred with the title of People's Artist of Uzbekistan in 1964. in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the "Buyuk xizmatlari uchun", an Uzbeki medal for outstanding service to the country.
Akhmarov was an artist with a global appeal.