P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yakubova, Muhiba

Tajik biologist Muhiba Muhsinovna Yakubova was born in Bukhara

on January 22, 1937. She joined the CPSU in 1967.

Yakubova graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1959. From

1961 to 1968, she was a Scientific Worker in the Physiology and Biol-

ogy of Plants Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Be-

tween 1968 and 1973, she was an Assistant Professor of the Department

of Plant Physiology. In 1974, she became Head of the Department of

Biochemistry of Tajikistan State University. She received her doctorate

degree in biology in 1984 and became a professor in 1986.

Yakubova's research deals with the organization of the interaction of

biochemical agents, especially in relation to photosynthesis.

Yakubova became a Distinguished Educator of Tajikistan in 1976.