P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Ahmadov has made great contributions to the study of mechanisms

that deal with facilitating breathing in thin air, especially in the high-

lands of Badakhshan. His contributions include Dikhanie cheloveka pri

visokogornoi gipoksii (Human Breathing Under High Mountain

Hypoxia, Dushanbe, 1971).

Ahmadov received eight orders and a number of medals.

Ahmadov, Sharif

Tajik historian Sharif Ahmadov was born into a merchant family in

Khujand on August 14, 1930.

Ahmadov graduated from the Faculty of History of Leninabad

Pedagogical Institute in 1953. From 1956 to 1977, he served as a

Lecturer, Senior Instructor, and Assistant Professor in the Department

of the History of the Soviet Union. Between 1977 and 1987, he taught

general history at the Department of History. He received his doctorate

degree in history in 1985 and became a professor of Tajik History and

Methodology in 1987.

Ahmadov's research deals with the problems of socialist competition

and the contributions of the Tajiks as a people to the building of

socialism. He is one of the contributors to Ta'rikhi Leninabad (The

History of Leninabad). His other contributions include Sotsialis-

ticheskoe sorevnovanie v promishlennosti Tadzhikistana 1917-1937

(Socialist Competition in Tajik Industry 1917-1937, Dushanbe, 1983).

Ahmadov was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik

Culture in 1967.

Ahrori, Zohir

Tajik literary scholar Zohir Ahrori was born on February 15, 1930,

in the village of Shkev of Darvoz. He received his early education in

Tajik schools of the region.

Ahrori graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1953 with

distinction. In 1956, he joined the Department of Languages and Lit-

eratures of the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. At the present, he is the Director of

the Middle East Division of the same institute.

Ahrori's contributions include critical editions of Shohnomai

Firdawsi (Firdowsi's Shahname), as well as of Salomon va Absol

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