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Iskandarov, Bahodur
Tajik historian Bahodur Iskandarovich Iskandarov was born into a
poor farming family in the village of Sochariz in Shughnon, Badakh-
shan, on April 12, 1912.

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Iskandarov graduated from the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute in

1930 and from the Leninabad Institute of History, Philosophy, and Lin-
guistics in 1936. From 1936 to 1940, he taught at the Dushanbe Peda-
gogical Institute. Then, between 1941 and 1947, he joined the war ef-
fort. In 1950, he became a Scientific Worker and in 1962, the Director
of the Donish Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Tajiki-
stan. He received his doctorate degree in 1961, became a professor and
a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in
1966, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1973.
Iskandarov's studies in history are centered on the political, eco-
nomical, and social history of Noble Bukhara and the Pamir region
during the second part of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
He is one of the contributors to Ta'rikhi Khalqi Tojik (History of the
Tajiks, 1963-1965). Iskandarov's other contributions include O neko-
torikh izmeneniakh v ekonomike Vostochnoi Bukhari na rubezhe 19-20
vv. ( About Some Changes in the Economics of the Emirate of Bukhara
at the End of the 19
th
 and Beginning of the 20
th
 Centuries, Stalinabad,
1958); Iz istorii Bukharskogo emirata (From the History of the Emirate
of Bukhara, Moscow, 1958); Vostochnaia Bukhara i Pamir v period
presoedinenia Srednei Azii k Rossii (Eastern Bukhara and the Pamirs
During the Second Half of 19
th
 Century, Stalinabad,  1960).
Iskandarov received the Ibn Sina State Prize in 1973, as well as the
Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War 1
st
degree. He
was also the recipient of the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor
and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of
Tajikistan.
Islomov, Ikrom
Tajik pathophysiologist Ikrom Islomov was born on October 20,
1921, in Khujand. Between 1941 and 1945, he participated in the Sec-
ond World War.
Islomov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1951
and became an Lecturer in the Department of Pathophysiology in the
same institute. He received his doctorate degree in 1974. In 1957, he
became the Head of the Department of Animal Anatomy of the Institute
of Agriculture. In 1961, he became the Head of the Department of
Pathophysiology of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute.

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