P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Khojaeva, Mo'ina

Tajik poet Mo'ina Khojaeva was born in Samarqand in 1941.

Khojaeva graduated from Samarqand State University in 1963 with a

degree in Tajiki language and literature. Thereafter, she began teaching

at Samarqand schools. Her short stories have appeared in Firuza, Sadoi

Sharq, Jumhuriyyat, and Ovozi Tojik. No further information is avail-

able about her.

Kholdorov, Usmon

Tajik biologist Usmon Kholdorov was born into a family of workers

in Khorugh, Badakhshan, on July 17, 1936. He joined the CPSU in

1966.

Kholdorov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1958. From

1958 to 1964, he was senior intern, post-graduate student, and senior

teacher at the Department of Biology of Tajikistan State University. In

1964, he became the Director of the Tajikistan Experimental Forestry

Station. He received his doctorate degree in biology in 1985, and be-

came a professor in 1988.

Kholdorov's research deals with botanical issues, especially in rela-

tion to the preservation of the forests. He is also interested in the devel-

opment and spread of walnut plantations in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,

and the northern Caucasus. His contributions include "Gretskii orekh i

perspektivi ego virashchivania" ("The Walnut and its Cultivation") and

Flora i rastitel'nost' ushchel'ya reki Varzob (The Flora and the Vegeta-

tion of the Varzob River Valley), Leningrad, 1971.

Kholdorov received the Silver and Bronze medals for organizing the

agricultural achievements of the Soviet Union, and the Honorary Order

of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

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Kholiqov, Toji

Tajik roentgenologist Toji Kholiqovich Kholiqov was born in the

village of Kuchkak in the district of Konibodom of Leninabad on No-

vember 20, 1941.

Kholiqov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1964.

From 1969 to 1972, he was a Scientific Worker and the Acting Director

of the Institute of Gastroenterology of the Academy of Sciences of Taji-

kistan. Later, he became the Director of Roentgenology and radiology

of the same institute. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1979.

He and his staff introduced new principles of comparative roent-

genographics of catheterization and made them operational.

Kholiqov's research deals with the diagnosis of diseases of the diges-

tive system and dilution of the roentgenology of the veins.