One of the most talented representatives of the Uzbek intelligentsia: an outstanding scientist, professor, teacher, publicist, translator, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Zhakhon Adabieti". Ozod Obidovich Sharafiddinov was born in 1929 in the city of Tashkent. In 1951, after graduating from the Philological Faculty of the Central Asian State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan), he studied at the graduate school of the Moscow Institute of World Literature and successfully defe