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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Islomov's research deals with problems related to the use of radioac-

tive isotopes in medicine, as well as with intravenous transfusion when

micro-circulation processes are no longer operative.

Islomov was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to the Health

Services of Tajikistan. He is a recipient of two Orders and seven

medals.

Ismati, Obid

Tajik satirist Obid Ismati was born into a family of clerics in 1905,

in Samarqand. He was educated first in the traditional schools, and later

(1919) in the newly established Soviet schools.

After completing the Samarqand Pedagogical Institute, he taught in

Samarqand's first Soviet school. He finished the Pedagogical Institute of

Tashkent in 1922, before he moved to Dushanbe.

Ismati's career was not long but full. Between 1928 and 1945, he

worked as director of teacher training schools and the director of lan-

guage, dictation, and terminology. He was also a literary consultant for

the Tajik theater.

Ismati's creative period began in the early 1920s. His literary works

include Mughchaho (The Mughchas, 1930), Bahori Kolkhuzi (The

Spring of the Collective Farm, 1930), A Collection of Songs, 1934), and

Mo Misozim (We Build, 1939). Freedom and praise of the innovations

of the Soviet System appear repeatedly as the main themes of Ismati's

poems: "Revolution and Victory," "The Song of the Red Soldier," "We

Build," and "Fiery Salute."

In the 1930s, Ismati also wrote some satiric pieces that were pub-

lished in the journal Mullo Mushfiqi, and some populist materials that

were published in 1934 in Adabiyoti Dahanaki.

Ismati joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1934. He

died on March 15, 1945, in Stalinabad (Dushanbe).