He was replaced by major-general Anatoly Mikhailovich Nazarov.
Battling to make the weight, he lost the title in his first defense to Orzubek Nazarov, and lost a rematch to Nazarov in 1994.
In 1999 Nazarov was awarded the Salem Prize "for his work in harmonic analysis, in particular, the uncertainty principle, and his contribution to the development of Bellman function methods".
Muboraksho played Shodkom in Kumir (The Idol), opposite of Khurshed, Nazarov's character.
Paul Nazaroff (Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov) (died 1942) was a Russian geologist and writer who was caught up in the Russian Revolution, and became the leader of a plot to overthrow Bolshevik rule in Central Asia.
In 1995, Nazarov and the new Allegro participated in the JVC jazz festival in Avery Fisher Hall in New York.