This article analyzes the epic “Chollar” (“Old Men”) by the People's Poet of Uzbekistan Shukrullo, the image and reality of the Soviet man artistically interpreted in it. The epic genre has a special place in the work of Shukrullo, a talented poet, playwright, translator, and publicist. The poet's epics “Chollar” (“Old Men”), “26-inchi tongotar” (“26th Dawn”), “Birinchi zilzila” (“First Earthquake”), “Otash va gul” (“Fire and Flower”), “Russia” (“Russia”), “Ikki qoya” (“Two Rocks”), “Ko‘ngil chirog‘i” (“Thunderbolt”) have come to the eyes of literary scholars and have been researched. But since these epics were created during the Soviet era, the works were researched and studied based on the method of vulgar sociologism. In particular, despite the fact that Shukrullo's epic “Chollar” (“Old Men”) has been analyzed by dozens of scholars such as N.Rahimjonov, B.Nazarov, there is a need to re-examine Shukrullo's epics based on the criteria of today's independence period literary studies. Therefore, academician B.Nazarov writes about the breaking history of the “Old Men” epic as follows: “One day teacher Oybek had a conversation with the poet Shukrullo. Oybek, Shukrullo's mentor, who speaks about the Moysafids as if he were himself, said, “Hearing your words without seeing yourself, he will say that you are an old man in his sixties. “Write a poem called “Chollar” (“Old men”) ¬¬he says.There were prototypes of most of the characters in Shukrullo’s sagas. In particular, in order to determine the life foundations of the character of Salim in the epic “Chollar” (“Old Men”), it is necessary to know the nature the poet's neighbor Zakir “parvoz” (“flight”) (Nazarov, 2016: 108).
poem, Shukrullo, Soviet person, Soviet reality, artistic interpretation.