P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Saidmurodov, Habibullo

Tajik economist Habibullo Murodovich Saidmurodov was born in

Uroteppa on July 30, 1933. He joined the CPSU in 1958.

Saidmurodov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1955.

From 1955 to 1958, he was an instructor of history at the same institu-

tion. He was a post-graduate student between 1958 and 1962. In 1963,

he became a Scientific Worker (until 1973) in the Department of Soci-

ology and Political Economics. In 1973, he was Director of the Asso-

ciation Dealing with Productions Forces. He received his doctorate de-

gree in economics in 1972, and became a professor in 1976. In the same

year, he became the Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, dealing with the development and

economic interrelationship between agriculture and industry, especially

in southern Tajikistan.

Saidmurodov's contributions include, Munosibathoi Iqtisodi dar

Khojagii Qishloqi Tojikiston (Economic Relations in Tajik Agriculture,

Dushanbe, 1965); Razvitie ekonomiki Sovetskogo Tadzhikistana (Eco-

nomic Advances of Soviet Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1970); Ocherki Istorii

narodnogo khoziastva Tadzhikistana 1917-1965 gg. (An Essay on the

Economic Structure of Tajikistan's Agriculture--1817-1965, Dushanbe,

1967); Vaz'iyyati Hozira va Perspektivahoi Taraqiyoti Kompleksi Teri-

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toriyovi u Istihsolii Janubi Tojikiston (The Present Situation and Per-

spectives Regarding the Production Advances in the Territorial Com-

plex in Southern Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1980).

Saidmurodov received the Badge of Honor, and the Honorary Order

of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.