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Musa Saidjanov, one of the great representatives of Bukhara Jadidism and an enlightener, historian, professor (1935), one of the active participants in the national movement for development, was born in 1893 in Bukhara in a merchant family. He graduated from Mirarab Madrasa and studied at the Russian-style school in Kagan. M. Saidjanov is interested in science and is seriously engaged in Arabic, Persian, Turkic languages, literature, history and geography.
He joined the Jadid movement in 1913 and in 1917 became one of the founders of the Young Bukhara Party. He was elected a member of the party's central committee. However, Musa Saidjanov was by nature opposed to revolutionary movements and in favor of gradual reforms. That is why he opposed the 1917 Jadid demonstration in Bukhara. Participated in negotiations between the Amir and the Jadids. Musa Saidjanov believed that the Uzbek people would follow a unique path of national development. His political views contradicted the communist ideology, so in 1920 he did not belong to the communist-oriented group of Young Bukhara. He later moved away from politics and worked in education.
After graduating from the Teachers' Institute in Tashkent, he taught in Khojand and participated in theater clubs. After the formation of the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic (BSSR), he was appointed Minister of Food (September 1920 - March 1921), Deputy Minister of Economy (March-August 1921), Minister of State Control (October 1921 - January 1922), ChK ( He served as Chairman of the Emergency Commission (August-September 1921), Minister of Finance (February-April 1922), Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of National Economy (October 1922 - 1923), Minister of Education (June 1923 - 1924).
He is one of the initiators of sending students from Bukhara to study in Germany. Participating in the activities of the "National Union", A. Z. He was in close contact with his parents. He took an active part in the formation of the Bukhara Scientific Society (1921) and was active in the organization of educational institutions in the USSR, the protection of architectural monuments, the collection and arrangement of historical manuscripts, the collection of folklore. He was the chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Historical Monuments of Uzbekistan, a researcher at its Samarkand branch (1925-36). He was the first Uzbek scholar to take part in the 3rd Congress of Orientalists in Leningrad (1935) and gave a scientific lecture on the Kochkunchikhan mausoleum. The scientist was awarded the title of professor for his scientific work. Author of the works "History of architectural monuments of Shakhrisabz", "Architectural monuments of Samarkand", "Foundation of Sheikh Sayfiddin Boharzi".
Musa Saidjanov was devoted to science until the end of his life. His comrades knew Saidjanov as a man of high intelligence, high intelligence, culture, and pure morals.
As a prominent representative of the Uzbek national intelligentsia, he was imprisoned in Samarkand by the Soviet regime for his opposition to the totalitarian regime's distortion of the history of Jadidism, his impartial study of the history of Uzbek statehood, his respect for cultural heritage, and his participation in the National Union (April 1937, 13). and shot. He was acquitted on December 1965, 2.