P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Tukhtaev, Tursun

Tajik pathophysiologist Tursun Mahmudovich Tukhtaev was born in

the district of Konibodom in Leninabad on April 20, 1937. He joined

the CPSU in 1966.

Tukhtaev graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1961.

In the same year, he became an intern in the Department of Patheo-

physiology of the same institute. In 1966, he became a Lecturer at the

Department of Pathophysiology and the Head of the Central Laboratory

of Scientific Research of the Medical Institute. He received his doctor-

ate degree in medicine in 1973.

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