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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Nuraliev, Yusuf

Tajik pharmocologist Yusuf Nuralievich Nuraliev was born in the

village of Nulvand of Darvoz, Badakhshan, on October 5, 1936. He

received his early education at the elementary schools of Sangevn of

Darvoz and the small town of Gharm in the Gharm region (1950-55).

Nuraliev graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in

1961. In 1961 and 1962, he was an intern. Between 1963 and 1966, he

was a post-graduate fellow. During 1967 and 1968, he was a Lecturer at

the Department of Pharmacology of Tajikistan State Medical Institute.

From 1969 to 1972, he was a doctoral candidate at the Leninabad State

Institute of Medicine. Nuraliev became a candidate for a doctorate

degree in pharmocology in 1973. In the same year, he was appointed the

Director of the Pathophysiology and Experimental Pharmocotherapy of

the Institute of Gastroenterology of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan. In 1974, he defended his dissertation, Farmokolojie Mumia

(The Pharmocology of Wax), with success, and received his doctorate

degree. From 1974 to 1996, he was the Director of the Pharmological

Division of the Institute of Gastroenterology of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. During 1996 and 1997, he was Chief Director of

Medicine, as well as Head of the Committee of Pharmocology of the

Ministry of Health of the Republic. From 1997 to the present, he has

been a Professor of Pharmocology at the Ibn Sina Medical College, as

well as a Senior Scientific Worker in the History of Medicine at the

Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan.

Nuraliev's research deals with the history of medicine of the Perso-

Tajik peoples, the efficacy of medicinal plants, and the healing values

of wax. His contributions include Mumiyo i ego lechebnie svoistva

(Wax and Its Natural Healing Properties, Dushanbe, 1976); Meditsina

epokhi avitsenni (Medicine at the Time of Avicenna, Dushanbe, 1980);

Meditsinskie traktati Avitsenni (Avicenna's Medical Treatiese,

Dushanbe, 1982); Giyohhoi Dorugi (Medicinal Plants, Dushanbe, 1989

and 1999); Giyohdarmonii Sangi Kulya (Botanical Treatment of Kidney

Stones, Dushanbe 1997); 110 Retsephoi Ibn Sina (Avicenna's 110

recipes, 1999 and 2000).

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Nuraliev has traveled to India, Iran, Germany, Switzerland,

Denmark, and Holland.