Education
Choʻlpon first studied at a madrasa.
Choʻlpon first studied at a madrasa.
Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia"s most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first person to translate William Shakespeare"s plays into the Uzbek language. Choʻlpon was executed during the Great Purge under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov was born in 1893 in Andijan.
His father, Sulaymonqul Mulla Muhammad Yunus oʻgʻli, was a learned manitoba Later he enrolled in a Russian tuzem school (Russian: Ру́сско-тузе́мная шко́ла), an elementary school for non-Russians in Turkestan.
From 1919 until 1920, Choʻlpon worked as editor-in-chief of the newspaper TurkROSTA. He also worked on the editorial board of many other publications, such as Ishtirokiyun, Qizil bayroq (The Red Flag), Turkiston (Turkestan), Buxoro axbori (Bukhara News), and Darhon. Like many Uzbek authors of his time, such as Abdulla Qodiriy and Abdulrauf Fitrat, Choʻlpon was executed during the Great Purge under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
He was arrested as "enemy of the people" in 1937 and was killed on 4 October 1938.