P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Philology of the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. Since 1995, Pirum-

shoev has been the Director of the Department of Homeland History of

the same institute. In 1996, he was also invited to the Institute of His-

tory, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan. Currently he is the Head of the Department of Ancient, Me-

dieval, and Modern History of that institute.

Pirumshoev's contributions include Tadzhikistan v trudakh russkikh

dorevoliutsionikh issledovatelei (Tajikistan in the Research Materials of

Pre-Revolution Russian Scholars, Dushanbe, 1990); Russkie dorevoliut-

sionnie issledovateli o gorodakh Vostochnoi Bukhori kontso XIX-

nachalna XX vv. (The Research of Pre-Revolution Russian Scholars

Dealing with the City of Noble Bukhara at the End of the 19

th

 and the

Beginning of the 20

th

 Centuries, Dushanbe, 1992); Russkie  dorevoliut-

sionnie issledovateli o politike Rossii v Crednei Azii v XVIII v. (The Re-

search of Pre-Revolution Russian Scholars Dealing with Russian Poli-

cies in Central Asia During the 18

th

 Century, Dushanbe, 1996); Rossi-

isko-sredneaziatskie otnoshemia XVI-seredini XIX vekov v pusskoi isto-

riografii (Russian-Central Asian Relations from the 16

th

 to the Middle

of the 19

th

 Centuries as Reported by Russian Historiographers,

Dushanbe, 1996); Istoria Izuchenia vosstania Vose (The History of the

Study of the Vose' Uprising, Dushanbe, 1998); and Jovidon dar yodho

(Eternal in Memories, Dushanbe, 2000).

Pulodi, Tillo

Tajik poet Tillo Pulodi was born on 12 May, 1912, into a farming

family of the Autonomous Badakhshan region of Tajikistan.

Pulodi graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1942,

and until 1948, taught at the elementary schools of Shughnon. Later on,

he served as a professor of Perso-Tajik literature at the Dushanbe Peda-

gogical Institute.

Pulodi's early works, beginning in 1935, were published in Badakh-

shani journals. In his verses, Pulodi depicts the lives of the people of the

Kuhistan. Some Tajik singers have adapted Pulodi's verses to local

music. In addition to his studies in Tajik folklore, Pulodi's major contri-

butions include "Tuhfai Sho'ir" ("The Gift of the Poet," 1945),

"Badakhshoni Ozod" ("Free Badakhshan," 1948), "Nomai Bakht" ("The

Fortune Letter," 1958), "Bahori Shodi" ("The Spring of Joy," 1962),

"Surudi Oktiobr" ("The Song of October," 1965), "Subhi Kishvari Man"

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