P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Iskandarov, Bahodur

Tajik historian Bahodur Iskandarovich Iskandarov was born into a

poor farming family in the village of Sochariz in Shughnon, Badakh-

shan, on April 12, 1912.

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Iskandarov graduated from the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute in

1930 and from the Leninabad Institute of History, Philosophy, and Lin-

guistics in 1936. From 1936 to 1940, he taught at the Dushanbe Peda-

gogical Institute. Then, between 1941 and 1947, he joined the war ef-

fort. In 1950, he became a Scientific Worker and in 1962, the Director

of the Donish Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Tajiki-

stan. He received his doctorate degree in 1961, became a professor and

a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in

1966, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1973.

Iskandarov's studies in history are centered on the political, eco-

nomical, and social history of Noble Bukhara and the Pamir region

during the second part of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

He is one of the contributors to Ta'rikhi Khalqi Tojik (History of the

Tajiks, 1963-1965). Iskandarov's other contributions include O neko-

torikh izmeneniakh v ekonomike Vostochnoi Bukhari na rubezhe 19-20

vv. ( About Some Changes in the Economics of the Emirate of Bukhara

at the End of the 19

th

 and Beginning of the 20

th

 Centuries, Stalinabad,

1958); Iz istorii Bukharskogo emirata (From the History of the Emirate

of Bukhara, Moscow, 1958); Vostochnaia Bukhara i Pamir v period

presoedinenia Srednei Azii k Rossii (Eastern Bukhara and the Pamirs

During the Second Half of 19

th

 Century, Stalinabad,  1960).

Iskandarov received the Ibn Sina State Prize in 1973, as well as the

Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War 1

st

 degree. He

was also the recipient of the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor

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

Tajikistan.

Islomov, Ikrom

Tajik pathophysiologist Ikrom Islomov was born on October 20,

1921, in Khujand. Between 1941 and 1945, he participated in the Sec-

ond World War.

Islomov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1951

and became an Lecturer in the Department of Pathophysiology in the

same institute. He received his doctorate degree in 1974. In 1957, he

became the Head of the Department of Animal Anatomy of the Institute

of Agriculture. In 1961, he became the Head of the Department of

Pathophysiology of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute.

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