P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Dostiev, Abdulmajid

Tajik politician Abdulmajid Salimovich Dostiev was born into a

farming family of Qurghonteppa on May 10, 1946.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Dostiev graduated from the Tajikistan Institute of Agriculture in

1974. His career began as that of a regular kolkhoz (collective farm)

farmer. He was a team leader, a chief agronomist of the Department of

Agriculture in Qurghonteppa, and an instructor in the Organization De-

partment of the Communist Party Committee of the City. In 1980, he

became a deputy to the chairman of the Lenin Kolkhoz.

Dostiev studied by correspondence and graduated from the Highest

Party School in Tashkent in 1987. Then, for eight years, he worked as

the chief of the Organization Department of the Bokhtar (formerly

Kommunisticheski) District. From 1988 to 1992, he worked as the

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bokhtar District, a most

active region in the ensuing Tajik civil war. In 1992, Dostiev, an active

supporter of Imomali Rahmonov, became the First Deputy Chairman of

the Tajik Parliament. Later on, he headed the government delegation at

the Inter-Tajik Negotiations and was instrumental in the composition of

the new Tajik Constitution. In 1994, Dostiev established the People's

Party of Tajikistan, and since then has served as its leader. At the pre-

sent, he is the Vice-President of the House of Representatives of the

Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

Dostiev's contributions include Konstitutsioi Nav (The New Consti-

tution, Moscow, 1997); Mavqi' (Circumstance, Dushanbe, 1999); Ashki

Khoma (Tear  of the Pen, Dushanbe, 1999); and Az Khud Natavon

Gurikhtan (We Cannot Run Away from Ourselves, Dushanbe, 2002).

Dostiev is the recipient of the Order of Ismoili Somoni in 2000, the

Order of the Red Banner of Courage in 1981, and others.

Dostiev has traveled to the United States, the Arab lands, Austria,

Japan, France, Germany, India, Iran, Pakistan, Italy, and others.