P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Ghafforova, Munzifa

Tajik philosopher Munzifa Qahhorovna Ghafforova was born in

Khujand on November 4, 1924. She joined the CPSU in 1965.

Ghafforova graduated from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in

1944. She was a Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of Leninabad

from 1944 to 1947, and Director of the Tajikistan branch of the Cultural

Committee of the Communist Party. She was a post-graduate student of

philosophy between 1952 and 1955 at the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan. Following that, in 1955 and 1957, she was a senior teacher

in the Department of Marxism-Leninism of the Dushanbe Pedagogical

Institute (women's section). She was an Assistant Professor at the same

institute from 1957 until 1962. From 1962 to 1974, she was the Head of

the Department of Philosophy. She received her doctorate in philosophy

in 1968, and became a professor in 1970. In 1975, she became the Dean

of the Institute.

Ghafforova's research deals with the development of the personality

of women in the Soviet East. Her contributions include Dukhovnii oblik

zhenshchini Sovietskogo Vostoka (The Spiritual Aspect of the Women of

Soviet East, Dushanbe, 1969), and Zanoni Respublikai Kuhiston (The

Women of the Mountain Republic, Dushanbe, 1974).

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Ghafforova became a Distinguished Scientific Contributor to Tajik

Culture in 1974. She received two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor,

the Order of Friendship Among People, and the Honorary Order of the

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.