P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yusufova, Sorojon

Tajik geologist Sorojon Yusufova was born in Bukhara on May 5,

1910. She joined the CPSU in 1962.

Yusufova graduated from the University of Samarqand in 1935.

Between 1940 and 1943, she worked at the Institute of Geology at the

Uzbek branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. She

worked from 1946 to 1948 at the Institute of Geology of the Tajikistan

branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, where she was

the Head of Geologic Studies pertaining to coal and oil. From 1940 un-

til the end of her life, she was the Director of the Department of Miner-

alogy and Petrography of Tajikistan State University. Yusufova re-

ceived her doctorate degree in geology and mineralogy in 1948, became

a professor in 1950, and an affiliate of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan in 1951.

Yusufova's research deals with the mineral properties and chemical

elements in clay and loam, and with their geo-chemistry. Her contribu-

tions include Mineralogicheskie osobennost liossov Sr. Azii (Minera-

logical Peculiarities of Central Asia's Yellow Dust, Moscow, 1951) and

Khususiyathoi Mineralogii Lioshoi Vodii Vaksh ( Mineralogical Peculi-

arities of the Loess in the Vakhsh Valley, 1985).

Yusufova was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Science

in Tajikistan in 1960. She died in Dushanbe on May 15, 1966.

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