Image Archive

This gallery brings together photographs and materials from the personal and creative archive of Raim Farkhadi: meetings with readers, literary evenings, travels, and family moments.

Autographs and inscriptions from friends, colleagues, and creative companions — those whose paths crossed with Raim Farkhadi’s — reflect warm connections, artistic kinship, and unforgettable encounters that became part of his life’s journey.

Portraits and moments

Age 10. With my grandfather’s sword and a book — that’s when my poetry began (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

Poet R. Farkhadi, 7th grade student, age 14 (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

Seminar on Uzbek Literature, 1962

Samarkand Medical Institute named after Academician Pavlov

"With my daughters, 1978" (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

In the 1980-s

Theater Studio "Visiting the Storyteller," 1997, at the Children's Library in Tashkent

Walking in the Tashkent Botanical Garden, 1994

Journeys & Travels

Ankara, 1973 — at Atatürk’s mausoleum. Trip to Turkey, my mother’s homeland. (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

Gander Island, Canada, 1977

At the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, D.C., USA, May 1981

At the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, USA, May 1981 — Raim Farkhadi with Viktor Akhlomov, a classic figure of Russian photography (Izvestia newspaper)

At the White House, Washington, D.C., USA, May 1981

New York, USA, May 1981

Baghdad, Iraq, 1988

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan, 2000

At the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy

Rome — the City of Books

Paris Opera, Palais Garnier, Paris, France

Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Spain (architect Antoni Gaudí)

Barcelona — the City’s Rhythm

Salvador Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, 2002

Salvador Dalí’s House in Cadaqués, Portlligat, Spain

Exhibition of Photographs of Uzbek Architecture, Brussels, 2001

Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London in the 1990s

In Amsterdam

With Professor Kuzi Kato and the gallery owner, Japan, 2000

In the vicinity of Yangiyul, Uzbekistan

1990, at the Hazrat Khizr Mosque in Samarkand

At the Louvre museum

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2019

At the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

At Jeongsimsa Temple, Mudeungsan National Park, South Korea

At the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2022 — at the exhibition "Whistler's Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan"

Encounters & Meetings

Fifth All-Union Conference of Young Writers, Moscow, March–April 1969

With M. Sholokhov, 1969 — a meeting never to be forgotten (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

Decade of Russian Literature and Art in Uzbekistan. Raim Farkhadi and Rimma Kazakova in Samarkand, 1963

Young writers at a meeting with Nikolai Tikhonov

With Vitaly Korotich on Donetsk soil. 1970s. (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

Bread and salt of Donbass. May 1977 — with M. Plyatskovsky and V. Kalinichenko. (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

With Olzhas Suleimenov, Tashkent, 1968

Literature Days, 1970s — with Mikhail Plyatskovsky (first on the left) during a meeting with workers of the Krasnodar region

Lake Nero, Rostov the Great. May 1972

May 15, 1977, Donetsk, Mospino airfield. During the Days of Soviet Literature in the Donetsk Region. In the front row, from left to right: poet Nikolai Upenik (Kyiv), journalist Viktor Syomin (Donetsk), writer Alexey Yelyanov (Leningrad), poet Mikhail Plyatskovsky (Moscow). In the second row, second from the right — poet Raim Farkhadi. This photograph was gifted to R. Farkhadi by V. Syomin.

In Tyumen Oblast with colleagues during the Days of Literature and Art. 1973.

Playwrights from Belarus and Georgia. 1978.

1980s. Poets O. Mukhtar and R. Farkhadi in conversation.

A meeting at the home of Sholem Aleichem’s granddaughter, American writer Bel Kaufman. (inscription by R. Farkhadi)

1970s. R. Farkhadi and A. Feinberg at a meeting in the Alisher Navoi Library.

R. Farkhadi with Gaoussou Diawara — Malian poet and playwright — at the Conference of Writers from Asia and Africa, Tashkent, 1976.

R. Farkhadi with Mamadou Traoré Diop — Senegalese poet and public figure — in Bukhara, July 26, 1975.

1980s. Bahodir, R. Farkhadi, and poetess Sevara Vafo.

1980s. With a guest from Cuba.

1980s. After the premiere of the play "The Sun Boy."

Puppeteers of Tashkent and Gabrovo, Bulgaria — a friendship. Early 1980s.

At the Theater House. 1994.

With Andrei Voznesensky. 1985.

Book presentation in Hindi. Delhi, 1985.

Baghdad, 1988.

At a meeting with soldiers: Raim Farkhadi and People’s Artist of Uzbekistan Svetlana (Oydin) Narbayeva. 1970s.

Among Karakalpak writers in Nukus.

With Karakalpak poet Ibragim Yusupov.

With Bernara Karieva after an interview. 1998.

Exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts — Uzbekistan Through the Eyes of Russian Artists. Raim Farkhadi with the Russian Ambassador, Dmitry Borisovich Ryurikov, and member of the Creative Association of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, curator and author of the exhibition, Vladislav Evnevich, 1999.

With artist Ruzy Charyev.

At a meeting with Japanese artist Ikuo Hirayama in Tokyo. 2000

With artist Vladimir Burmakin.

With artist Bakhodir Jalalov.

With People’s Artist of Uzbekistan Sabir Rakhmetov.

With artist Javlon Umarbekov.

With artist Asliddin Isaev.

Dr. Farkhadi and Dr. Nazarov. 1997.

London, May 1994 — with Shirin Akiner and her student from China.

S. Mansurov-Kovrigenko, I. Galushchenko, R. Farkhadi, and T. Santalova. 2003. At an evening dedicated to V. Vysotsky at the Sergei Yesenin Museum in Tashkent.

With figures of culture. 1980s.

Among filmmakers, with film director Shukhrat Abbasov.

Raim Farkhadi with film director Ali Khamraev and Rustam Abdullaev, Chairman of the Union of Composers and Bastakors of Uzbekistan.

At the photo exhibition "Grateful to Fate" — Raim Farkhadi with his wife Saida Farkhadi, and Rakhimbay Dzhumaniyazov

With film director Sergey Solovyov.

With Julian Gallant, Director of Pushkin House in London.

At the presentation of the book Island of Poems in London.

At the presentation of the book The Little Musician in Seoul, together with the illustrator.

At a meeting in the Human House gallery.

At a meeting in the S. Borodin Museum.

At a meeting at the Writers’ Union on the occasion of Raim Farkhadi’s 80th anniversary.

Meeting at the Writers’ Union.

At the memorial evening for Sharaf Rashidov.

At the First Moscow Forum of Children's Literature of the CIS Countries.

Public Appearances

Mid-1980s, Izhevsk — reading poetry.

Meeting in Temryuk. Temryuk is a town located in the Krasnodar Krai region of southern Russia, near the Taman Peninsula on the coast of the Sea of Azov.

At a meeting with students from Cuba. 1980s.

Raim Farkhadi reading his new poems to the builders of "Andizhangidrostroy." Uzbek poets and writers often visited major construction sites across the republic to share their work.

Club "Dialogue" of the Uzbek Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (UZODKS). 1988.

Republican Center for Children's Artistic Creativity — with Sanobar Shodieva. 1990s.

1998

The "Chimgan-Eco-2002" Ecological and Tourism Festival is officially opened by the chairman of the jury — poet and environmentalist Raim Farkhadi.