P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Sobirov, Qodir

Tajik philosopher Qodir Sobirovich Sobirov was born into a farmer's

family in the village of Qistakuz of Khujand on September 7, 1924. He

served at the war front from 1941 to 1945. He joined the CPSU in 1948.

Sobirov graduated from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in 1948.

In 1948 and 1949, he was the Head of the Department of Marxism-

Leninism of Kulab. Between 1949 and 1951, he was Director of the

Lecturers of the Kulab Committee and the Senior Instructor of the De-

partment of Essentials of Marxism-Leninism of the Kulab Pedagogical

Institute. From 1951 to 1954, he was a post-graduate student of Phi-

losophy at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1955 until

1958, he was Director of the Department of Marxism-Leninism of the

State Pedagogical Institute of Kulab. Thereafter, until 1962, he was the

Director of Historical Materialism of the Division of Philosophy of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1962, he became an Assistant

Professor of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

From 1963 to 1970, he was Assistant Professor of Scientific Commu-

nism at Tajikistan State University. He received his doctorate degree in

Philosophy in 1970, and became a professor in 1973.

Sobirov's research dealt with the problems of historical materialism,

the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Scientific

Communism, especially regarding the formation and development of

the nationalities. Sobirov's contributions include Tashakkul va Inkishofi

Millathoi Sotsiolistii Sharqi Soveti (Formation and Development of the

Eastern Soviet Socialist Nations, Dushanbe, 1964) and Tadzhikskaya

sotsialisticheskaya natsia--detishche Oktiabria (The Socialist Tajik Na-

tion Born of the October Revolution, Dushanbe, 1967).

Sobirov received the Order of the Red Star, and the Honorary Order

of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan. He died in

Dushanbe on September 9, 1974.

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