P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Narziqulov, Ibodullo

Tajik economist Ibodullo Qosimovich Narziqulov was born on

November 12, 1909, in Samarqand. He joined the CPSU in 1931.

Narziqulov graduated from the Leningrad Technical Institute in

1931, and from the Leningrad Industrial Institute in 1935. From 1937 to

1938, he was the economist for the bread division of the People's

Commissariat of the Food Industry. From 1938 to 1941, he was the

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economist, and the Head of the Division of Planning of the Economy of

Food Industries. From 1941 to 1943, he was Assistant Director of the

People's Commissariat. From 1943 to 1950, he was a post-graduate

student at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan. In 1950, he became the Head of the Presidium of the Tajik

Division of the Soviet Union. He became a member of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan in 1953. In 1956 and 1957, he was the Acting

Director of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic. From 1957 to

1966, he was the First Associate of the President of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. Then from 1960 to 1968, he was the Acting

President of the Academy.

He became a Distinguished Scientific Worker of Tajikistan in 1964.

Narziqulov's research deals with the history of Tajik industry, industrial

forces, and the problems arising from the establishment of regional

complexes in southern Tajikistan. His contributions include V. I. Lenin i

razvitie proizvoditel'nikh sil sovetskogo gosudarstva (V. I. Lenin and the

Increase in Soviet Governmental Production Forces, 1969).

Narziqulov was recognized with two Orders of the Red Banner of

Labor, the Badge of Honor, and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of

the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

Narziqulov died in Dushanbe on April 3, 1973.