P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Tursunov, Nazirjon

Tajik ethnographer and historian Nazirjon Ochilovich Tursunov was

born into a family of workers in Leninabad on August 12, 1942. He

joined the CPSU in 1981.

Tursunov graduated from the Department of History and Philology

of the Leninabad State Institute in 1964. Between 1964 and 1980, he

became an Assistant Professor, and later Professor of History of the

Soviet Union at the Leninabad State Pedagogical Institute. He received

his doctorate degree in history in 1980, and became a professor in 1981.

Tursunov's research deals with the problems of historical topogra-

phy, the structure of cities and villages, and demography, as well as the

professions, artistry, trade, farming, and herding among the people. His

period of investigation is from the end of the 19

th

 to the beginning of the

20

th

 centuries. His contributions include Iz istorii gorodskogo remesla

Severnogo Tadzhikistana (From the History of Art in Northern Tajiki-

stan, Dushanbe, 1974).