P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Muborakshoeva, Nazarbegim

Tajik politician Nazarbegim Muborakshoeva was born in the Rushon

district of Badakhshan in 1952.

Muborakshoeva graduated from the Tajik Agricultural Institute in

1974 and from the Tashkent Communist Party High School in 1991.

She began her professional career in a Shughnan kolkhoz, where she

served as agronomist. Between 1975, when she entered the Komsomol

organization, and 1983, Muborakshoeva was as an instructor in the

Badakhshan Komsomol Organization, both as the first secretary of

Rushon and of Khorugh Komsomol Committees. Between 1983 and

1987, she was an instructor at the Khorugh City Committee of the CPT.

From 1987 to 1991, she was the first secretary of the Rushon District

Committee of the CPT. From 1991 to 1997, Muborakshoeva chaired the

Executive Committee of the Rushon District Council of People's

Deputies. She became the chair of the same committee in 1997. A

presidential decree appointed Muborakshoeva to the National Assembly

on March 20, 2000. On April 17, 2000, she became the chair of the

National Assembly.