P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yusufbekov, Khudoyor

Tajik agriculturalist Khudoyor Yusufbekovich Yusufbekov was born

in the village of Pish of Shughnan, Badakhshan, on December 10, 1928.

He joined the CPSU in 1966.

Yusufbekov graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy of Tajikistan,

Institute of Agriculture, in 1954. From 1954 to 1957, he was a Senior

Scientific Worker in the Botanical Gardens in Pamir for the Academy

of Sciences of Tajikistan. Between 1957 and 1960, he was the Director

of the Institute of Biology of Pamir. He received his doctorate degree in

agriculture in 1969. Already a Corresponding Member since 1968, he

became an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in

1976. From 1981 to 1986, he was Dean of the Tajikistan Institute of

Agriculture. In 1986, he became the Academic Secretary of the Biology

Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Yusufbekov's re-

search deals with the natural environment of the Pamirs, especially fo-

cusing on strategies to increase the amount of grazing grass in the area.

Yusufbekov's contributions include Rastitel'nost' Zapadnogo Pamira

i opit eyo rekonstruktsii (West Pamir Plants and Experiments for Their

Revival, with O. E. Agakhanianits, Dushanbe, 1975).

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