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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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of the Paleography and Stratigraphy Division of the same institute. He

received his doctorate degree in geology and mineralogy in 1976 and

became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Taji-

kistan in 1981.

Jalilov's research deals with the remains of the soft-bodied animals

of the Chalk Era in Central Asia. He has created the basis for the study

of the Stratigraphy of the Gastropods of the Chalk Era in southern Taji-

kistan and has determined their sex. His contributions include Melovie

briukhonogie ioga-vostoka Srednei Azii (Chalk Gastropods of South-

eastern Central Asia, Dushanbe, 1977).

Jalilov is a recipient of the Red Banner of Courage, the Badge of

Honor, and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

of Tajikistan.