17 February 1945 -- Born in Tashkent

1968-71 -- Research worker at Institute of Nuclear Physics in Moscow

1971-83 -- Renior scientific researcher at the Physics-Technological Institute at the Academy of Sciences in Uzbekistan, professor of physics at Tashkent State University

1983-88 -- Laboratory chief at the Physics-Technological Institute at the Academy of Sciences in Uzbekistan

1991-99 -- Chief research secretary at the Academy of Sciences in Uzbekistan

May 1999-September 2000 -- Head of the Air Force Academy of Uzbekistan, simultaneously serves as deputy defense minister

29 September-present -- Defense minister