P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Umarov, Bakhtiyor

Tajik physicist Bakhtiyor Sultanovich Umarov, son of Sulton

Umarov, was born in Samarqand on February 21, 1941. He joined the

CPSU in 1975.

Umarov graduated from the Moscow State University in 1964. Be-

tween 1964 and 1986, he was a junior Scientific Worker, and Head of

the Laboratory of Optoacoustics at the Institute of Physics and Technol-

ogy in the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate

degree in physics and mathematics in 1985. In 1986, he became the Di-

rector of the Scientific Division of the Central Committee of the Com-

munist Party of Tajikistan.

Umarov's research deals with spectroscopy. He discovered the spec-

trography of the diffusion of light combinations in centrally asymmetri-

cal crystals. He also determined the relationship between the various

diffusion patterns of light and crystals. His contributions include,

Vvedenie v spektroskopiyu kombinatsionnogo rasseyania sveta v

kristalakh (Introduction of Controlled, Distorted Lighting Via the

Crystals into the Spectroscope, Dushanbe, 1982).