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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sharof Rashidovich Rashidov was a Communist Party leader in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Born the day before the Russian Revolution to the poor peasant family in Jizzakh, in what would be the Uzbek SSR of the Soviet Union, Sharof Rashidov worked as a teacher, journalist and editor for a Samarkand newspaper. He returned home in 1942 with wounds suffered on the German front in World War 2. He became head of the Uzbekistan Writers Union in 1949, and was elected to the post of Chairman of the Praesidium of the Uzbek Supreme Soviet in 1950. In 1959, he became First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party, a post he held to his death in 1983.