P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mahkamov, Qahhor

Tajik engineer and politician Qahhor Mahkamov was born into a

worker's family in Khujand on April 16, 1932. He joined the CPSU in

1957.

Mahkamov graduated from the Dushanbe Industrial Technicom in

1950 and from the Leningrad Institute of Kuhkori (mountain mining) in

1953. From 1953 to 1961, he was a professor, a relief head engineer,

and the Director of Mine No. 1/5-6 of Shurob of Isfara, as well as the

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Head of the government of Tajik Coal. He was also the Head of the

Committee of the Representatives of the Workers of Leninabad. He was

appointed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajiki-

stan in 1963. From 1963 to 1982, he was the Head of the Central Plan-

ning and the Vice-Director of the Cabinet of the Ministers of Tajikistan.

He was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Tajikistan

from 1986 to 1991, and the President of the Republic from March to

September of 1991.

Mahkamov was appointed to the senate by the order of the President

in 2000.

Mahkamov was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer in 1966. He

is a recipient of three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the Hon-

orary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.