P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Rahim Hoshim

See Hoshimov, Rahim.

Rahim Jalil

See Jalilov, Rahim.

Rahimboev, Abdullo

Tajik politician Abdullo Rahimboev was born to a family of mer-

chants in Khujand on June 14, 1896. He was one of the major founders

of Soviet rule in Central Asia. He received his early education first in

the traditional schools, then in the new-method schools (1908-1917).

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Rahimboev graduated from the Tashkent Seminary in 1917, became

a teacher in Khujand, and began his political activities among the Mus-

lim workers of Khujand. In 1919 and 1920, he was the Secretary of the

Communist Party of Khujand and Head of the Communist Party of

Samarqand. Between 1920 and 1923, he was Secretary of the Central

Committee of the Communist Party of Turkistan and was also a mem-

ber of the People's Committee dealing with the affairs of the peoples of

Russia. From 1923 to 1924, he was the First Secretary of the Commu-

nist Party of Bukhara and Second Secretary of the Central Committee of

the Communist Party of Turkistan. From 1925 to 1927, he studied

Marxism in Communist Courses at the Academy of Sciences of the

USSR. Between 1928 and 1933, he was Head of the State Publications

of the Peoples of the Soviet Union and the Head of the Committee

dealing with the Minorities in the Soviet Union. From 1933 to 37, he

was Head of the Soviet of the People's Commissariat. Rahimboev was a

victim of Stalin's purges, and died in Khujand on May 7,

 

1938. He was

decorated with the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star.