P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Ismoilov, Mahmud

Tajik botanist Mahmud Ismoilov was born in Samarqand on October

1, 1929. He joined the CPSU in 1953.

Ismoilov graduated from the Department of Geology and Geography

of the University of Uzbekistan in 1949. From 1953 to 1960, he was a

graduate student and Scientific Worker at the Institute of Botany of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Then, between 1960 and 1967, he

was the Director of the Botanical Gardens of the same institute. In 1967,

he became the Director of the Department of Botany of the Tajikistan

State University. He received his doctorate degree in biology in 1975

and became a professor in 1977.

Ismoilov's research is devoted to an understanding of the problems

of phytoserology, dendrology, and the structure of the plants of

Tajikistan and Central Asia. Ismoilov's contributions include Ocherk

drevesnoi i kustarnikovoi rastitel'nosti yugo-zapadnikh otrogov

Darvazskogo khrebta (An  Essay on the Medicinal Trees and Plants in

the Southeastern Regions of Darvoz, Dushanbe, 1971).