P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Sayfulloev, Atokhon

Tajik intellectual Atokhon Sayfulloev was born on May 1, 1933 into

a family of workers in Leninabad. He joined the CPSU in 1962.

Sayfulloev graduated from the Khujand Pedagogical Institute in

1954, and for several years served as a teacher and a Scientific Worker

at the Rudaki language and literature division of the Khujand branch of

the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Between 1968 and 1973, he was

the director of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan. From 1975 to 1985,

he served as the Editor of the Soviet Tajik Encyclopedia. For a while,

the Committee for Sado va Simo was also under his supervision. Be-

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