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Irkaev, Mullo

Tajik historian Mullo Irkaev was born in the village of Sairob of

Boisun, Uzbekistan, on May 9, 1910. He joined the CPSU in 1940.

Irkaev graduated from the Tashkent Pedagogical School in 1929 and

from the Faculty of History of the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in

1939. Between 1941 and 1949, he was a Lecturer, division chair, and

acting director of propaganda and agitation of the Central Committee of

the Communist Party of Tajikistan. He also served as the Secretary of

the Party Committee of Dushanbe and Kulab. He became a professor in

1963 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet

Union in 1967. From 1950 to 1975, he was Head of the Department of

History of the Soviet Union at Tajikistan State University. In 1975, he

became a professor at the Department of History of the Soviet Union.

Irkaev's research deals with Lenin's policy for the Communist Party,

friendship among the peoples of the republics of the Union, and the

contribution of the Russians to the elevation of Tajik culture. His con-

tributions include Kommunisticheskaia organizatsia v Tadzhikistane

(Communist Organization in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1976); Barpo va

Mustahkam Kardani Hokemiyati Soveti dar Tojikiston (Establishment

and Consolidation of Soviet Rule in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1966);

Oktiobri Kabir va az Navsozii Sotsioli u Madanii Dehot (The Great

October Revolution and the Social and Civilizational Reconstruction of

the Villages, Dushanbe, 1982); and Dehqononi Kolkhozi--Binokoroni

Fa'oli Sotsialism (Kolkhoz Farmers--the Active Builders of Socialism,

Dushanbe, 1986).

Irkaev was recognized as a Distinguished Teacher and a Distin-

guished Scientific Contributor to Tajikistan in 1964. He is also the re-

cipient of two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, two Badges of

Honor, and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

of Tajikistan.

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