P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Sobirov, Sulton

Tajik chemist Sulton Sobirovich Sobirov was born in Khujand on

January 21, 1933. He joined the CPSU in 1972.

Sobirov graduated from Leninabad Medical Institute, and the

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute of Leningrad in 1963. From

1963 to 1967, he was a post-graduate student. Then, between 1967 and

1970, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry

of Tajikistan State Medical Institute. In 1970, he became the Director of

the Department of Organic Chemistry of the same institute.

Sobirov's research deals with the problems of the synthesis of pri-

mary, secondary, and tertiary alcohol with acetylene and diacetylene.

He has synthesized more than 400 new compounds most of which have

passed required tests.

Sobirov, Temur

Tajik mathematician Temur Sobirov was born in the village of

Sufion in Orjonikidzeobod on April 3, 1940. He joined the CPSU in

1966.

Sobirov graduated from Tajikistan State University with a degree in

physics and mathematics in 1961. For a while, he worked in the Physics

and Mathematics Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan;

then he entered the University of Voronezh as a post-graduate student.

From 1968 to 1975, he served as a senior instructor. Between 1975 and

1977, he was the Head of the Department of Algebra and Geometry of

the Pedagogical Institute of Voronezh. He received his doctorate in

mathematics and physics in 1977. In the same year, he also was pro-

moted to professor.

Sobirov's research dealt with differential equations. His main contri-

butions, including the following, were in his training of the Tajikistani

cadres Issledovanie po teorii rozhdenia malikh periodicheskikh reshenii

iz sostoiania ravnovesia v nelineinikh sistemakh differentsial'nikh urav-

nenii (Research in the Theory of Short-period Resolution in a Nonlinear

Structure in a Differential Exchange, Moscow, 1981).

Sobirov died in Orjonikidzeobod on June 23, 1977.

Sobirov, Tohir

Tajik actor and movie director Tohir Mukhtarovich Sobirov was

born in Dushanbe on December 21, 1929.

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