P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Boboeva, Khosiat

Tajik historian Khosiat Qosimovna Boboeva was born into a mer-

chant family in Khujand on December 5, 1923. She joined the CPSU in

1942.

Boboeva graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Leni-

nabad Pedagogical Institute in 1942. From 1942 to 1946, she worked at

the Stalinabad Party offices, and from 1947 to 1951, she was a post-

graduate student at the University of Moscow. In 1954, she became the

Party Committee Secretary of the Leninabad region. In 1956, she be-

came an Assistant Professor at the Tajikistan State University and, in

1959, she was promoted to the Head of the Department of the History of

the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Political Economy of the

Tajikistan State Medical Institute. She received her doctorate degree in

history in 1974 and became a professor in 1978.

Boboeva's research deals with the history of the formation of work-

ers' organizations and their unification with the farmers of the Republic.

She is also interested in the role of the Communist Party of Tajikistan in

both the formal organizations and the coming together of the factory

and farm workers. Boboeva's contributions include Soyuz rabochego

klassa i krest'ianstva Tadzhikistana v period postroenii sotsializma (The

Union of Workers and Farmers of Tajikistan During the Socialist Era,

Dushanbe, 1974); and Okhrana zdorovia naroda--sostavnaia chast' sot-

sial'noi programmi Kommunisticheskoi partii (People's Healthcare: A

Major Part of the Program of the Communist Party, Dushanbe, 1984).

Boboeva was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik

Education in 1963. She is a recipient of the Badge of Honor and the

Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

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