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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Tojiev graduated from Leningrad State University in 1941. In 1946

and 1947, he was the Director of the Language and Literature Division

of the Scientific Research Institute. From 1951 to 1953, he was Director

of the Language Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan and,

between 1953 and 1987, he was the Director of the Department of Lan-

guages at the Tajikistan State University. He became a professor in

1967. Tojiev received his doctorate degree in linguistics in 1972.

Tojiev's first scientific article was entitled "Kalimai 'Ob' dar Zaboni

Adabii Hozirai Tojik" ("The Word 'Water' in Present-day Literary

Tajiki," 1952).

Tojiev's research dealt with the morphology of the Tajiki language

with forays into Tajiki syntax. He also dealt with the interaction be-

tween Tajiki and Russian in such works as Zaboni Rusi--Zaboni Mu-

hovira va Hamkorii Khalqhoi SSSR (The Russian Language--the Lan-

guage of Conversation and Cooperation Among the Peoples of the So-

viet Union, 1964).

Tojiev was recognized as both an Excellent Tajik Educator in 1960,

and a Distinguished Tajik Teacher in 1965.

Tojiev died in Dushanbe on January 6, 1987.