Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR M. A. Akhunova (Tashkent) On October 27, 1924, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR legislated the national-state division of Central Asia. This day became the day of formation of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Over the 60 years of its history, Soviet Uzbekistan has become an important economic, including industrial, region of the USSR. Such branches of the national economy as energy, mechanical engineering, chemistry, gas production, etc. have been widely developed in the republic. Its multinational working class is the bearer of socialist ideology and social relations of cooperation and mutual assistance. It is no accident that the history of the working class of the republic attracts the attention of scientists. The range of research on various aspects of this problem is constantly expanding, and its historiography is being updated with new generalizing works, monographs, thematic collections, and articles in all-Union and republican scientific periodicals. The growing role of the working class in the life of Soviet society and the qualitative changes that occur in it under the conditions of developed socialism are thoroughly analyzed in numerous scientific forums. The modern working class of Uzbekistan is one of the republican detachments of the Soviet working class, which plays a crucial role in solving the main task of the party and the people - the task of improving developed socialism1 . K. U. Chernenko, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, emphasized at a meeting with workers of the Moscow metallurgical plant "Hammer and Sickle" that the working class is "at the forefront of the struggle to accelerate the development of the country's economy." 2Historians of Uzbekistan have considered the dynamics of growth of the working class of the republic, shown its qualitative changes, increased creative activ ... Читать далее