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Aliev, Ghulom

Tajik zoologist and selectionist Ghulom Alievich Aliev was born on

December 20, 1915, in Samarqand. He joined the CPSU in 1940.

Aliev graduated from the Samarqand Institute of Agriculture in

1934, and from 1934 to 1935 worked at the Ghuzor Sovkhoz for raising

Karakol sheep. From 1935 to 1937, he was a Lecturer at the Department

of Genetic Increase in Quadrupeds in the same institute. Between 1937

and 1942, he was a post-graduate student, as well as the Head of

Tajikistan's Division at the Experimental Herding Station. From 1945 to

1950, he served as the Director of the Tajik Division of the Institute of

Research on Herding at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Aliev

became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan in 1951 and an Academician in 1953. He was the Acting

President of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan between 1953 and

1958, and from 1958 to 1962, he was the Associate Minister of

Agriculture of the Republic. He received his doctorate degree in

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agriculture in 1965. He served as the Rector of the Institute of

Agriculture in 1973.

Aliev's research, which started in 1945, is focused on the raising of

"gusfandi Tajiki" or Tajik sheep, a variety of sheep richer in wool, fat,

and meat than the ordinary sheep. His contributions include Tadzhik-

skaya miasa-sal'no-sherstnaya poroda ovets (The Breed of Tajik Sheep

for Wool, Fat, and Meat, Dushanbe, 1967).

Aliev was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist in the Republic in

1975, and is the recipient of four Red Star for Labor awards, as well as

the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of

Tajikistan. He garnered the Ibn Sina State Prize in 2001. He was also

recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Science in 2001 for de-

veloping a new variety of sheep.

Aliev has traveled in Iran, England, Italy, United States, France,

Mexico, and Canada.