P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Rajabzoda

See Rajabov, Askarali.

Rashid Abdullo

See Abdullo, Rashid.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Rashid Olimov

See Olimov, Rashid.

Rasulov, Jabbor

Tajik politician Jabbor Rasulov was born into a family of workers in

Khujand on July 10, 1913. He joined the CPSU in 1939. He served both

the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan

from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Rasulov graduated from the Central Asian Cotton Production Insti-

tute in 1934. Between 1934 and 38, he was an agronomist. From 1938

to 1941, he was Acting Public Commissar of Agriculture. In 1941, he

became a Representative of the Commissariat for Production for the

Soviet Union in Tajikistan, where he served until 1945. From 1945 to

1946, he was the Public Commissar for Agriculture in the Republic.

Between 1946 and 1955, he was the Head of the Cabinet of Ministers of

the Republic. Then he became the Acting Minister of Agriculture of the

Soviet Union until 1958. From 1958 until 1960, he was the Secretary of

the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, following

which he became the Extraordinary Ambassador of the Soviet Union in

the Republic of Togo (1960-61). He returned to become the First Sec-

retary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan

from 1961 to 1982.

Rasulov was distinguished as a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1981. He

received nine Orders of Lenin, the October Revolution Award, the Red

Banner of Labor Award, and other medals and accolades.

Rasulov died in Dushanbe on April 4, 1982.