WAR (1941 - 1945). WEDDING: SHARAF AND KHURSAND

When Sharaf Rashidov went to the front as a volunteer, on the platform of the railway station he said: "Uncle and Father, please, take Khursand to Jizzakh. If I come back alive and well, we will be together." Khursand was a student of Sharaf Rashidov, and after school she also entered the Samarkand State University, the Faculty of History.

SHE TOLD ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF LOVE BETWEEN HER AND THE YOUNG SHARAF RASHIDOV: "I MUST SAY THAT IN ADDITION TO LOVE THERE WAS ANOTHER POWERFUL FORCE THAT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO DESCRIBE. BECAUSE, EVEN BEFORE FATE LINKED US, SHARAF-AKA WAS FOR ME A FATHER, A MOTHER, AND A BROTHER... WHEN SHARAF-AKA WENT TO THE FRONT, I WAS ALREADY LEFT WITHOUT PARENTS. MY ONLY SUPPORT WAS HIM, MY TEACHER. PERHAPS THIS IS THE LOVE YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT, OR MAYBE THIS IS FATE."

Sharaf Rashidov and Khursand got married in the autumn of 1942, and in August 1943 their first daughter Sayora was born. The joyful events of the family were overshadowed by a tragedy that occurred in 1944 — on 3 July, Hamid Alimjan, a relative and friend of Sharaf Rashidov, died in a car accident. At that time Hamid Alimjan was a very popular writer.

In 1945, his first collection of poems, My Anger, was published.

In 1951, the novel Winners was released. It was dedicated to the heroic deeds of Uzbek collective farmers during the harsh war, where he sought to show the close relationship and unity of the home front and frontline, what the people and the country lived by, and what worried his peers and inspired them for heroic deeds.