Malik Qayumov

Soviet actor, camera operator and film director (1912-2010) · Uzbekistan · On the map · Actors · Died at 98

Malik Qayumovich Qayumov was a Soviet-Uzbek filmmaker, actor, and the first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Uzbek SSR from 1976 to 1986. He was renowned for his work filming the exhumation of Timur’s burial site.

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Awards

USSR State Prize

Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

Hero of Socialist Labour

Order of the Red Star

Order of the Badge of Honour

People's Artist of the USSR

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For Courage"

Medal "For Distinguished Labour"

People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR

Order of El-yurt hurmati

Medal of Valor

State Prize of the Uzbek SSR Named After Hamza

Nika Lifetime Achievement Award

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

About this person

Later on he worked as a frontline camera operator during World War II and then for the Uzbekfilm studio. His films were shown internationally. For his work he was awarded many prestigious awards, including the State Hamza Prize, People's Artist of the USSR in 1967, the USSR State Prize in 1981, Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990, and the Nika Award for the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. He was haunted throughout his life with the belief that the opening of tomb of Timur, a process that he filmed, caused the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union as result of the "curse of Timur" and that the war would not have happened if the tomb was left undisturbed.

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Uzbekistan