P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yakubov, Abdullo

Tajik toxicologist Abdullo Yakubovich Yakubov was born in

Khujand on May 16, 1932.

Yakubov graduated from Tajikistan State Institute of Medicine in

1958. Until 1984, he worked on epidemiology and hygiene at the Insti-

tute of Scientific Research of the Republic's Ministry of Health. He re-

ceived his doctorate degree in medicine in 1981. In 1984, he became the

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Director of the Department of Animal Hygiene and Veterinarian Affairs

of the Institute of Agriculture of the Republic. He also was appointed

Head of Toxicology of the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan.

Yakubov's research deals with problems of hygiene, especially the

use of pesticides in cotton farming and herding, as well as the impact of

chemicals on the lives of farming and herding communities. Yakubov's

other contributions include Voprosi vodosnabzhenia v sviazi s prime-

neniem pestitsidov (Problems of Irrigation in Relation to the Use of

Pesticides, Dushanbe, 1972).

Yakubov was recognized as an Distinguished Contributor to Medical

Science at the Union level.