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Abdullokhujaev, Zaki
Tajik physician and contagious disease specialist Zaki Yaqubovich
Abdullokhujaev was born into a family of builders on February 12,
1929, in Khujand.
Abdullokhujaev graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical In-
stitute Named After Ibn Sina in 1950 and, in 1955, defended his post-

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graduate thesis. From 1955 to 1960, he was an intern and an Assistant

Professor in the Department of Contagious Diseases at the same in-
stitute. In 1965, he defended his dissertation on The Process of Oxidi-
zation and the Establishment and Oxygen Balance in Hepatitis. He
became a physician in 1967, and a professor in 1969. From 1967 to
1968, he was the Acting Director of the Dushanbe Institute of Epide-
meology. In 1968, he became the Director of the Department of Chil-
dren's Contagious Diseases. He also became the Director of the Chil-
dren's Division of the Ministry of Health and Well-being of the
Republic.
Abdullokhujaev has published a noteworthy number of studies in
relation to contagious diseases including Tashkhis u Mu'olijai Bimorii
Botkin dar Bachagon (How to Diagnose and Treat Hepatitis in Chil-
dren, 1970) and Tarzu Usulhoi Mu'olijai Ba'zi Bimorihoi Vaznini
Bachagon (Methods and Principles for Treating Grave Cases of Chil-
dren's Diseases, 1972).
Abdullozoda, Roziullo
Tajik intellectual Roziullo Abdullozoda was born in Uroteppa in
1912. He completed the Tashkent Economics Institute in 1930 and the
Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1941. In subsequent years, he taught
Tajiki language and literature in Uroteppa and Panjakent high schools.
Abdullozoda's early articles were published in Omuzgor, Jumhuriyyat,
Javononi Tojikiston, Sadoi Sharq, Firuza, and Ilm va Hayot. Abdullo-
zoda joined the Union of Writers of Tajikistan in 1959. Contributions of
Abdullozoda include Zarbulmasal va Hikmat dar Osori Aini (Apho-
risms and Philosophical Thought in the Works of Aini, 1958),
Muntakhabi Ash'ori Lutfi (Selected Works of Lutfi, 1959), Ash'ori Noili
Shirzoda (The Poems of Noil Shirzada, 1961), and Pandi 'Oqil (The
Advice of the Wise, 1982). Yodi az Guzashtagon (In Memory of the
Departed), a collection of poetry published in 1983, contains a number
of Abdullozoda' s poems.