P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Ya'qubov, Yusufshoh

Tajik archeologist Yusufshoh Ya'qubov was born in Darvoz on No-

vember 18, 1937, into a family of farmers.

Ya'qubov graduated from the Institute of History of Tajikistan State

University in 1960. He received his doctorate degree in 1988 and be-

came a member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1991.

Ya'qubov started his career in the 1960s as the head laboratory assistant

in the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

From 1963 to 1966, he was a graduate student in the Institute of History

of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.  From 1966 to 1970, he was a

Junior Scientific Worker at the Academy. In 1970, he defended his the-

sis entitled Pargar dar Asrhoi VII-VIII (Pargar in the Seventh and

Eighth Centuries) at the Oriental Studies Division of Moscow Univer-

sity. In 1988, he defended his dissertation entitled Dehahoi Sughd Asri

V-VIII Milodi (Sughdian Villages during the Fifth to the Eighth Cen-

turies After Christ).

Ya'qubov's contributions include Pargar dar Asri VII-VIII (Pargar

during the Seventh and Eighth Centuries), Dushanbe, 1979; Dehahoi

Sughd dar Asrhoi V-VIII Milodi (The Sughdian Villages of the Fifth to

the Eighth Centuries After Christ), Dushanbe, 1988; Dini qadimi Sugh-

dion (The Old Religion of the Sughdians), Dushanbe, 1996; Tojikon

(The Tajiks), Dushanbe, 1994; and Ta'rikhi Khalqi Tojik Ibtidoi Asri

Miona (History of the Tajiks at the Beginning of the Middle Ages),

Dushanbe, 2000.

Ya'qubov is recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik

science.