10 Facts About Farukh Ruzimatov

Farukh Sadullayevich Ruzimatov is an Uzbek-Russian ballet dancer.

Since 2018, Ruzimatov has been artistic director of the ballet company at Navoi Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Farukh Ruzimatov was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union.

Farukh Ruzimatov enrolled in the Vaganova Academy in 1973 in Leningrad, where he trained under Gennady Selyutsky.

Farukh Ruzimatov's repertoire includes such roles as Albrecht in Giselle, Solor in La Bayadere, Golden Slave in Sheherazade, Ali in Le Corsaire, Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty, The Prince in The Nutcracker, Siegfried in Swan Lake, Basil in Don Quixote, and many others.

Farukh Ruzimatov has performed as principal guest artist with the American Ballet Theatre.

Since 2018, Farukh Ruzimatov is artistic director of the ballet company at Navoi Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Farukh Ruzimatov has had many successful partnerships, but the two most well known are probably his collaboration with Yulia Makhalina in Kirov productions of Giselle and La Bayadere, and he partnered Larissa Lezhnina in her Kirov debut as Aurora in the 1989 production of The Sleeping Beauty.

Farukh Ruzimatov went on to partner her in Diana and Acteon, but as she left the Kirov to become a soloist for the Dutch National Ballet in 1994, their promising collaboration was cut short.

The couple were most seen dancing together in the ballet Le Corsaire, but when Asylmuratova retired, Farukh Ruzimatov was later dancing with Diana Vishneva in the early 2000s.