P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography

The Institute was founded in 1951 as a multi-disciplinary scientific-research

institution working on the history of the Tajik people, the archaeology and

ethnography of the population of Tajikistan and Tajiks outside the country. Noted

Russian and Soviet orientalist A. A. Semenov was the first director of the institute.

The Institute consists of 6 departments:

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  Current History

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  Ancient, Medieval and Modern History

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  Culture and Art History

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  Archaeology and Numismatology

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  Ethnography

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  History of Science and Technology

In addition, the Institute has a restorational and technological laboratory and a

museum of ethnography.

The major fields of investigation of the Institute include

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  History of the Tajik people: general regularities and specific peculiarities

(antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern and current time);

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  Archaeology and historical-cultural problems in the history of the Tajik

people; and

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  History and theory of art of the Tajik people.

The major scientific results of the Institute include a six-volume work entitled

History of the Tajik People. It encompasses the latest research presented in History,

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