P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Ravshan Rahmoni

See Rahmonov, Ravshan.

Rustamov, Sharofuddin

Tajik scholar and linguist Sharofuddin Rustamov was born in the

village of Nikanot in the Panjakent district of the Zarafshan province

May 1, 1931. He joined the CPSU in 1955.

Rustamov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in

1954. In 1964, he was appointed the Director of the Contemporary Lan-

guage Department of the Rudaki Institute of Languages and Literatures.

Rustamov's research deals with various aspects of Persian and Tajiki

languages including the reasons for the deterioration of the status of the

languages and various ways of preventing foreign vocabulary from en-

tering the languages.

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