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Yusufbekov, Rustambek

Tajik economist Rustambek Yusufbekov was born in the village of

Rin in Ishkoshim on December 31, 1923. He joined the CPSU in 1945.

Yusufbekov graduated from Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1950.

He was a teacher and director of the Party Committee of Ishkashim

from 1940 to 1947. Then, between 1951 and 1954, he was a post-gradu-

ate student of the Academy of Sociology at the Central Committee of

the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1954 to 1956, he was a

teacher of political economy at the Party School, Central Committee of

the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1956 until 1959, he was the

Director of the Department of Political Economy at Tajikistan State

University. From 1959 to 1962, he was the Acting Director of the sci-

entific branch of the schools of the Central Committee of the Commu-

nist Party of Tajikistan. He became a Corresponding Member of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1966, a professor in 1969, and a

Doctor of Economics in 1971. Between 1963 to 1974, he was the Min-

ister of Education of Tajikistan, and from 1974 to 1984, the Acting Di-

rector of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tajikistan. In 1984, he became a

Professor in the Department of Economics of Tajikistan State Univer-

sity.

Yusufbekov's contributions include Ekonomicheskie problemi

sovershenstvovania narodnogo obrazovania (Economic Difficulties of

Completing People's Education, Dushanbe, 1971) and Tadzhikistan v

edinoi semie (Tajikistan in the Unique Family, Frunze, 1984).

Yusufbekov became a Distinguished Scientific Contributor to Tajik

culture in 1983. He is the recipient of two Orders of the Red Banner of

Labor, two Badges of Honor, medals, and the Honorary Order of the

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.