Suleiman Yudakov

Suleiman (Solomon) Alexandrovich Yudakov (; 14 April 1916 – 5 November 1990) was a Soviet composer.

Biography Suleiman Yudakov, a Bukharian Jew, was born in Kokand, and started to devote himself to music in the orphanage where he spent three years of his childhood. His first teacher there was Mikhail Naigof. In 1932, he was accepted to the so-called rabfak (рабочий факультет, or workers' faculty - an educational establishment set up to prepare workers and peasants for higher education) of the Moscow Conservatory majoring as a flautist. In 1939, Suleiman Yudakov became a student in the class of Reinhold Glière State Hamza Prize (1977) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (18 March 1959) Order of the Badge of Honour (6 December 1951) People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1976)