P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Tojiev, Komil

Tajik surgeon Komil Tojievich Tojiev was born in Konibodom on

October 25, 1910. He joined the CPSU in 1943.

Tojiev graduated from the 2

nd

 Moscow Medical Institute in 1937,

and contributed to the war effort between 1941 and 1945. Between 1946

and 1951, he was a Lecturer in the Department of General Surgery at

the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. From 1952 to 1954, he was the

Acting Head of the Department of General Surgery of the Tajikistan

State Medical Institute. In 1960, he became the Head of the Department

of General Surgery of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. He re-

ceived his doctorate degree in medicine in 1960. He became a professor

in 1961, and an academic in 1965. From 1965 to 1973, he was the Rec-

tor of the same institute. He is the founder of the School of Surgery of

Tajikistan.

Tojiev's contributions include Mumiyo i stimuliatsia regenerativnikh

protsessov (Wax and External Regeneration Processes, with T. M.

Tukhtaev, Dushanbe, 1971).

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Tojiev was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Science in

1963. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of Friendship

among People, the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1

st

 and 2

nd

Class, and the Badge of Honor.

Tojiev died in Dushanbe on March 30, 1981.

Tojiev, Yoqub

Tajik hygienist Yoqub Tojievich Tojiev was born in Konibodom on

November 23, 1918. He joined the CPSU in 1950.

Tojiev graduated from Tashkent State Medical Institute in 1944, and

then contributed to the war effort (1941-45). From 1947 to 1949, he was

the Head of the Konibodom hospital. Between 1949 and 1951, he was

the Director of the Health Care Division of Leninabad. He became the

Acting Minister of Health of Tajikistan from 1954 to 1959, and from

1959 to 1961, he was the Acting Chair of the State Medical Institute of

Health at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1961, he became

the Director of the Department of Social Hygiene and Establishment of

Medical Care of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. He received his

doctorate degree in 1970, and became a professor in 1971.

Tojiev's contributions include Nigahdorii Tandurustii Tojikiston ba

Pishvozi Revolutsioi Kabiri Sotsiolisti (Tajikistan's Health Services

Welcomes the Great Socialist Revolution, Dushanbe, 1957); Zdra-

vookhranenie Tadzhikistana (Health and Well-Being in Tajikistan,

Dushanbe, 1974); and Istoria Meditsini, (The History of Medicine,

Dushanbe, 1979).

Tojiev was recognized in 1982 as a Distinguished Scientific Con-

tributor to, and as one of the major founders of Health Services in Taji-

kistan. He has received many medals and orders, especially the Order of

the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1

st

 and 2

nd

 Class, and the

Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.