P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Nazarshoev, Moyonsho

Tajik historian Moyonsho Nazarshoev was born into a farmer's

family in Badakhshan on December 17, 1929. He joined the CPSU in

1953.

From 1947 to 1952, Nazarshoev studied at the Dushanbe

Pedagogical Institute. Then, for a year, he studied sociology at the State

University of Central Asia (Tashkent). Between 1953 and 1960, he was

a senior instructor of the History of Communism at the Kulab

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Pedagogical Institute. From 1958 to 1960, he was the Director of the

Department of Marxism-Leninism of the same institute. From 1960 to

1962, he was a senior teacher at Tajikistan State University,

simultaneously serving as the Secretary of the Party. In 1962, he

became the Director of the Ideology Division of the Central Committee

of the Republic. From 1963 to 1970, he was the First Secretary of the

Communist Party of Badakhshan. In 1970, he became the Prorector of

the Scientific Studies of Tajikistan State University. He received his

doctorate degree in history in 1980.

Nazarshoev's research deals with the leadership and structure of the

Communist Party of Badakhshan and with the spread of Communist

ideology in the Pamirs. His contributions include Tashkiloti Partiyovii

Badakhshoni Kuhi dar Muboriza Baroi Inkishofi Ma'orifi Khalq dar

Pomir (The Party Structure of Gorno-Badakhshan in the Struggle for

the Development of Education Among the Peoples of the Pamirs, 1971),

Tantanai Idiahoi Lenini Revolutsiyoi Madani dar Pomir (Echoes of the

Revolutionary Ideas of Lenin in the Pamirs, 1974), Partiinaia

organizatsia Pamira v bor'be za sotsializm i kommunizm ( Pamir Party

Structure in the Struggle for Socialism and Communism, 1970), and

Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe polozhenie dorevoliutsionnogo Pamira (The

Social and Economical Situation in Pamir Before the Revolution, 1975).

Nazarshoev was decorated with the Red Banner of Labor, the Red

Banner of Courage, and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the

Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

Nazir, Usmon

Tajik intellectual, journalist, and researcher Usmon Nazir was born

in Mascho in 1940. He received his early education in Mascho.

Nazir graduated from Khujand University, and thereafter, taught and

researched the works of Nisori of Bukhara, the subject of his thesis for

candidate of science. For his doctorate degree he studied the historical

development of the Rubo'i (quatrain) genre, focusing on the Quatrains

of Umar Khayyam.

Nazir is a member of the Union of Tajik Writers  as well as the

Union of Tajik Journalists. A Distinguished Contributor to Tajik

Culture, Nazir has received a number of State awards. He has traveled

extensively in Iran and the republics of the former Soviet Union.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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