P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Kholov, Mahmadullo

Tajik politician Mahmadullo Kholov was born into a farming family

in the village of Boloshar in Gharm on January 2, 1920. He participated

in the Great Patriotic War. He joined the CPSU in 1947.

Kholov graduated from the Republican Party School at the Central

Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan in 1954, and the Ad-

vanced Party School at the Central Committee of the Communist Party

of the Soviet Union in 1969.

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Kholov's career began in 1940. From 1947 to 1951, he was the Sec-

retary to the Komsomol Committee of Shulmak. From 1956 to 1959, he

was the Party Committee Secretary for Mikoianabad and First Party

Committee Secretary of Obigarm. From 1959 to 1963, he was the Head

of the Executive Committee of the Representatives of the Laborers of

Kuybishev and the First Party Committee Secretary of the Moskva dis-

trict. From 1964 to 1984, he was the Acting Head of the Presidium of

the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

Kholov is the recipient of two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the

October Revolution, and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor. He

was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2

nd

 Class, the Badge of

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

of Tajikistan.

Kholov retired in 1984 and passed away thereafter.

Kholzoda, Said

Tajik popular poet Said Kholzoda was born into a shoemaker's fam-

ily in the village of Marzich in Aini in 1916.

Kholzoda graduated from a seven-month pedagogical course in

Leninabad in 1937. He went to Hissar and contributed to the digging of

the Varzob canal. His early poems include "Mu'allimoni Surkhi Shuro"

("The Red Teachers of the Soviet," 1937) and "Bo Rohbarii Lenin"

("With Lenin's Leadership," 1938). In his story entitled "Du hayot"

("Two Lives"), published in 1957, he compared the past and present

lives of his people and pointed out the benefits of socialist life. In 1960,

he wrote the second part of this story, which includes "Partavi Hayoti

Nav" ("The Light of the New Life"). The collection is entitled "Tarona-

hoi Navruzi" ("New Year Songs"). His subsequent contributions deal

with the freedom of women and girls under socialism. This series in-

cluded Inqilob (Revolution), which was written in two volumes and

published in 1960 and 1967. Other poems in the series are "Taasurot az

Moskva" ("Impressions of Moscow," 1962), and "Imdodi Lenin"

("Lenin's Assistance," 1967).

Kholzoda's Chohkan Ziri Choh (The Well Digger Under the Well),

published in 1964-65, depicts the struggle of the people of Palestine

against the people of Israel. The language of his creations is simple.

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Khromov, Albert

Soviet

 

Orientalist, philologist,

 

and

 

Iranist

 

Albert Leonidovich

Khromov was born into a worker's family in Novgorod on August 28,

1930.

Khromov graduated from Moscow State University in 1954. Be-

tween 1954 and 1964, he was a Junior, and later, Senior Scientific

Worker at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1964 until 1968, he was the Director of

Foreign Languages of Tajikistan State University. From 1968 until

1971, he was a Senior Scientific Worker in the Department of Tajiki

Language, and, later Assistant Professor at Tajikistan State University.

He received his doctorate degree in philology in 1970 and became a

professor in 1971. In the same year, he became Professor of Persian

Language in the Department of Persian Language of the same univer-

sity. In 1981, he became a Senior Scientific Worker at the Institute of

Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

Although Khromov's research began with a study of the Mastchohi

Kuhi dialect of Tajiki, later, it expanded to include Yaghnobi and Sugh-

dian as well. It also deals with questions of the toponymy of the past

and the present areas now known as the republics of Central Asia, as

well as with a comparison among Iranian languages, the history of Ira-

nian philology, and the jargon and languages of Iranian people.

Khromov was an expert in Sughdian which he learned through elec-

tronic means. His contributions include Govori tadzhikov Matchinskogo

raiona  (The Tajik Dialect of the Maschah Region, Dushanbe, 1962);

Istoriko-lingvisticheskoe issledovanie Yagnoba i Verkhnego Zeravshana

(Historical and Linguistic Studies of Yaghnob and Upper Zarafshan,

Dushanbe, 1970); Yagnobskii yazik (The Yaghnobi Language, Moscow,

1972); Sogdiiskii yazik (The Sughdian Language, Moscow, 1981).

Khoromov died in 1993.