P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yusufi Akbarzoda

See Akbarov, Yusuf.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Yusufov, Habibullo

Tajik poet Habibullo Yusufov, also referred to as Habib Yusufi, was

born into a scholarly family in Samarqand on February 4, 1916.

Yusufov graduated from the Philology Department of the Uzbekistan

Institute in 1940. His studies concentrated on ancient Greek literature

and 19

th

 century Russian literature. In the same year, he came to

Dushanbe and worked as a Scientific Worker in the History, Language

and Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In

1942, he was called to the front, and in 1943, graduated from the Army

Academy.

Yusufov began writing poetry in 1936. His first collection of poetry,

Taronai Vatan (Song of the Motherland) was published in 1939. A lyri-

cist, Yusufov combines political themes with themes of love; this adds

to the sincerity and effectiveness of his poetry. The homeland and love

for it dominate his poetry.

Yusufov's Majmu'ai Shi'rho (Collected Poems) was published in

Dushanbe in 1962; his 1977 Rohi Notamom (Unfinished Road) ap-

peared in two volumes in 1987. His Slovo o Zhizn (The Song of Life)

was published in Moscow.

Yusufov joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1939.

He received the medal for the Defense of Leningrad (1943), Order of

the Red Star (1944 ), and the Prize Named After N. Ostrovskii (1967).

Yusufov died in Poland on February 22, 1945.

Yusufov, Hakim

Tajik geologist Hakim Mustafoevich Yusufov was born in Bukhara

on

 

December 17, 1918. He joined the CPSU in 1945.

Yusufov graduated from Samarqand University in 1940. Between

1941 and 1945, he contributed to the war effort. After the war, he

worked at the Union of Geologists of Tajikistan. From 1960 to 1966, he

was a Junior Scientific Worker. In 1967, he became a Senior Scientific

Worker at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He received his doc-

torate degree in geology and mineralogy in 1984.

Yusufov's research deals with the structure of geology, the genesis of

collyrium (surma) and mercury (simab) mines in Tajikistan, especially

in the Zarafshan and Hissar regions. His contributions include Osnovnie

zakonomernosti razmeshchenia rtutno-sur'mianogo orudenenia v ze-

ravshano-Gissarskom rudnom poiase (Basic Regulations for the Place-

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