Bakiyev Zafar Abdushukurovich was born on 15 of December in 1982 in Tashkent, higher education, graduated from Uzbek State Institute of Physical Education in the direction of physical education (freestyle wrestling) in 2003, and Master’s degree in sports in 2005, and post-graduate studies in 2009.

Candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor.
Since September 2009 he has been working as a head of the department of theory and methodology of the national and international kinds of wrestling in Uzbek State Institute of Physical Education.