P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Rajabov, Solih

Tajik lawyer Solih Ashurkhojaevich Rajabov was born in Khujand

on October 10, 1912. He joined the CPSU in 1939.

Rajabov graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Soviet Structure

and Law in 1933. From 1936 to 1940, he was a teacher, and later, Di-

rector of the Tashkent Institute of Law. He received his doctorate de-

gree in law in 1949, became a professor in 1950, and an academician of

the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1957. In 1955 and 1956, he

was the Director of the Department of Law of the University of Central

Asia. Between 1956 and 1971, he was Dean of the Tajikistan State Uni-

versity. From 1973 to 1975, he was Acting Chief Scientific Editor of the

Soviet Tajik Encyclopedia. In 1975, he became Academic-Secretary of

Social Affairs of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1971, he

became a Member of the Presidium of the same institution.

Rajabov's research deals with the theory and history of the Soviet

government and rights, Soviet Constitution, the governmental structure

of the republics of Central Asia, and the implementation of Lenin's de-

cree regarding anticapitalist growth and development of backward

countries to benefit from the benefits of socialism.

Rajabov's contributions include Tojikiston Davlati Sohab Ikhtiori

Soveti (Tajikistan: an Independent Soviet Republic, Stalinabad, 1959);

V. I. Lenin va Ghalabai Sotsiolizm dar Respublikahoi Sharqi Soveti (V.

I. Lenin and the Victory of Socialism in the Republics of the East,

Dushanbe, 1970); Konstitutsioi nvai SSSR--Konstitutsioi Sotsiolizmi

Mutarraqi (The New Constitution of the Soviet Union--The Constitution

of Progressive Socialism, Dushanbe, 1978); Qonuni Hayoti Respublika

(The Law of the Life of the Republic, Dushanbe, 1984); V. I. Lenin i

sovetskaya natsional'naya gosudarstvennost' (V. I. Lenin and the Na-

tional Governorship of the Soviet Union, Dushanbe, 1970); and

Natsional'naya gosudarstvennost' soyuznikh respublik (National Gov-

ernorship of the United Republics, Moscow, 1968).

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