Yunus Rajabiy

Yunus Rajabiy (5 January 1897 – 23 April 1976) was a Soviet-Uzbek composer, instrumentalist, folklorist, academic, and leader of Uzbek music groups. In addition to composing much celebrated music, he systematically collected, documented, and recorded many Uzbek songs, preserving songs from collective memory.

Rajabiy received many awards for his work including the Soviet Order of Lenin, the title People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR, and the Order of Outstanding Merit of Uzbekistan. Several locations in Uzbekistan bear his name, including a station on the Tashkent Metro. In 1997, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Yunus Rajabiy Museum was inaugurated in Tashkent.