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Kholmatov, Isroil

Tajik otolaryngologist Isroil Bobojonovich Kholmatov was born in

the village of Oqteppa of the Nov district of Leninabad on February 2,

1928. He joined the CPSU in 1953.

Kholmatov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in

1950 and began to work there. He received his doctorate in medicine in

1972, and became a professor in 1976.

Kholmatov's research deals with chronic closure of the throat, as

well as problems of hearing. He is the chief otolaryngologist for chil-

dren in Tajikistan. His contributions include Nekotorie voprosi

izucheniia nasledctvennosti pri otoskleroze (Questions Regarding an

Understanding of Inherited Otosclerosis, Moscow, 1973).

Kholmatov became a Distinguished Scientist of the Soviet Union in

1968, and a recipient of the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the

Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan in 1978.