He was born on January 14, 1949 in Dushanbe in the family of an actor. In 1972 he graduated from the philological faculty of the Dushanbe State Pedagogical Institute. Over 10 years of work in the State Radio and Television of Tajikistan, he mastered many television professions: assistant director, director, editor, commentator, and department head. Since 1982 – he was correspondent of the editorial office of the culture of the TASS Telegraph Agency in Tajikistan. In 1986 he was invited to the post of head of the information department of the popular and circulation newspaper “Evening Dushanbe”. During these years, actively collaborates with television, including the Central Television of the USSR, as an author and presenter.

One of the first television workers of the Soviet Union appeared in three roles at once: as a scriptwriter, director and TV presenter of his programs. As a special correspondent, he made reports for the issues of News and the program “Time” in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Bulgaria, India, Romania, Pakistan and other countries. In 1995, A. Khodzhaev, with the experience of a military journalist, was transferred to work in Rostov-on-Don. His efforts are restoring the correspondent network in the North Caucasus.

First, as the ORT’s own correspondent in the Rostov Region, and then as the head of the Southern ORT Bureau, he went through all the “hot spots” in the South of Russia. In 2002, A. Khodjaev was invited to work in the Office of the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District. Then again work on his favorite “First channel”. Alexander Alinazarovich – winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize, awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region. Member of the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.