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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Biras" ("Consider the Case"), "Overturai Idona" ("Celebratory

Overture"), and many others.

Nazarov's composing talent is particularly noteworthy in "Ghulomi

Siyoh" ("Black Slave"), by I. V. Ikoninkov, "Shahlo" ("Shahla"), by A.

Shukuhi and H. Askar, and "Isiyoni Aruson" ("The Revolt of the

Brides"), by Said Ahmad.

Nazarov became a People's Artist of Tajikistan in 1960, and a

member of the Union of Composers of the Soviet Union in 1977. He

was decorated with a number of medals.

Nazarov, Talbak

Tajik economist and politician Talbak Nazarov was born on March

15, 1938, in the village of Kangurt of Danghara in the province of

Kulab. He joined the CPSU in 1963.

Nazarov graduated from the Leningrad Economics Institute in 1960.

Between 1960 and 1982, he was a teacher, post-graduate researcher,

and Director of the Department of Finance and Credit, as well as the

Dean and Pro-rector of Tajik State University. He received his doctorate

degree in economics in 1975, and became a professor in 1976. He

became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan in 1981, From 1980 to 1982, he was the Minister of

Education of Tajikistan. From 1988 to 1990, he was the First Deputy

Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In 1991, he became the Minister

of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan.

Nazarov's research deals with finances, government budget, and

credit issues. His publications include Korkhonahoi Sano'ati dar

Sharoiti Nav (Industrial Plants in the New Conditions, 1969), V. I.

Lenin dar borai Moliyai Sotsializm va Mas'alahoi Havasmandonii

Iqtisodii Istihsolot (V. I. Lenin about Socialist Capital and the Problems

of Economic Industrial Stimulation, 1971), Financial Credit Methods of

the Efficiency of Capital Investment, 1982), Razvitie gosudarstvennogo

biudzheta Tadzhikskoi SSR posle perestroiki upravlenia narodnim

khoziaistvom (Financial progress of the Government of Tajikistan After

the Reconstruction of Agriculture, 1964), and O fonde razvitia

proizvodstva (About the "fond" (reserve) for Economic Progress,

1976).

Nazarov received the Badge of Honor and other medals.

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