P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Shahobova, Malohat

Tajik linguist Malohat Badriddinovna Shahobova was born in

Bukhara on March 15, 1928. She joined the CPSU in 1952.

Shahobova graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages with a

degree in English in 1948. In 1951, she graduated from Dushanbe

Pedagogical Institute, and in 1959, from the Faculty of Foreign Lan-

guages of Moscow. Thereafter, she taught at both the Institute of For-

eign Languages and the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. She has pro-

duced a large number of articles on the interrelationship between Tajiki

and English, as well as on inter-cultural relations between the two cul-

tures. She received her doctorate in 1985, and became a professor in

1987.

Shahobova's contributions include Zaboni Ingilisi (The English Lan-

guage, 1982), Opit sopostavitel'nogo issledovania grammaticheskogo

stroia tadzhikskogo i angliiskogo yazikov (Experimental Comparative

Study of Tajiki and English Grammars, Moscow, 1985), Lughti Ingilisi-

Tojiki (An English-Tajik Dictionary, 1987), and Muhovarai Tojiki-Rusi

(Tajiki-Russian Conversation, 1993).

Shahabova has retired but continues to work in the Department of

Foreign Languages of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Addition-

ally, she is the founder and Director of the Tajik Women's Association.

Shahabova is the recipient of the Honorary Order of the Presidium of

the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

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