P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Naimov, Mirzoodil

Tajik historian Mirzoodil Naimov was born in the village of Rarz in

the Aini district of Sughd on January 14, 1930. He received his early

education at the Aini District School No. 7, and his higher education at

the Panjakent Pedagogical Institute (1945-1947). He joined the CPSU in

1952.

Between 1955 and 1959, Naimov studied at the Tashkent Institute of

Politics majoring in history. From 1972 to 1988, he was the Director of

the Publications Department of Irfon Publishers. Thereafter, until 1997,

he was a Senior Member of the Institute of History, Archaeology, and

Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1997, he

became a Professor of History at the Tajikistan Russian Slavic

University.

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