Unsung Hero of Uzbekistan- Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi

The life of Uzbek poet and composer Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi (1889–1929), a prominent figure who facilitated socialist reform in the Uzbek republic and helped to elevate the Uzbek language to literary status.

Niyazi is one of the most prominent forerunners of distinctive Uzbek literature and the founder of modern Uzbek musical forms

In youth, he organized a free school for children of poor neighborhoods and himself wrote primers for children. He joined The Bolsheviks in 1920 and organized a theater troop for the Uzbek and Tajik Red Army soldiers. His immortal works – are included in the thesaurus of world literature and translated into hundreds of the world's languages. 

Niyazi's work Niyoziys extolled the Russian Revolution and was directly connected with the struggle for social justice and liberation in Uzbekistan. Many of Niyazi's other works, including his poems, dramas and other writings were likewise often written in the turmoil of revolution and describe Niyazi's view of the awakening of Uzbek class consciousness. Niyzai's novels are generally moralistic and focus on showcasing and condemning those aspects of Uzbek society the author considered backward and detrimental to both individual and national development. He successfully imbibed socialist realism into his works, made him one of the key figures of the modern central Asian literature.

Yasha, Shoʻro! (Hail to the Soviets!) - an Uzbek folk song composed and written by Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi.
In his first novel, Saodat yangi, Niyazi extols the benefits of education. The book was written to showcase the author's belief in the power of modern education to end "all superstitious nonsense, so detrimental to morale and purpose", and to allow a human being to reach his full potential and improve not only his own life. He was stoned to death in the town of Shohimardon by Islamic fundamentalists for his anti-religious activities. His notable anthologies of folk songs and melodies have a collection of about 40 songs, mostly Uzbek, but also in Kashgar and Tatar. Niyazi himself was a master of several traditional Uzbek instruments, such as dotar and the tanbur.

Famous works:

• Zaharli hayot yoxud Ishq qurbonlari (Poisonous Life or the Victims of Love)
• Yangi saodat (New Prosperity) (1915)
• Devoni Nihoniy (Nihoniy's Diwan)
• Boy ila xizmatchi (The Bey and The Servant) (1918) 
• Paranji sirlaridan bir lavha Yoki yallachilar ishi (One Episode from the Secrets of the Veil or the Case of Yalla Singers) (1922)
• Tuhmatchilar jazosi (The Punishment of Slanderers) (1918) 
• Burungi qozilar yoxud Maysaraning ishi (Old Judges or the Case of Maysara) (1926)