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Zikriyoev, Faizi

Tajik historian Faizi Zikriyoev was born in Maschoh on April 10,

1937. He received his early education at a Soviet school in Maschoh.

Zikriyoev graduated from the Tajikistan State National University

with a degree in history in 1959, and became a teacher in the Depart-

ment of Sociology of the Tajikistan State Technological University. He

also served as a post-graduate, teacher, and Assistant Professor at the

Department of History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Zikriyoev's contributions include "Komsomoli Tojikiston Baroi

Rushdi Tekniki" ("Tajikistan Komsomol for Development of Technol-

ogy," 1971), "Bahri Hayoti Osishta" ("Towards a Tranquil Life," 1970),

"Leninskii Komsomol v usloviyakh razvitovo sotsializma na materi-

alakh Tadzhikoi SSR" ("Progressive Socialist Conditions of the Lenin-

Type Komsomols in Soviet Tajik Situations," 1985), "Ta'rikhi Siosii

Khalqi Tojik va Jahon" ("Political History of the Tajiks and the World,"

1995), and others.

Zikriyoev has traveled in the former Soviet Union, mostly to Kiev

and Moscow in pursuit of scholarly activity.