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created more than forty roles. Karamkhudoev became a People's Artist

of Tajikistan in 1962.
Karamshoev, Dodkhudo
Tajik linguist Dodkhudo Karamshoev was born into a farming fam-
ily of the village of Vanj in Rushon, Badakhshan, on May 5, 1932. He
joined the CPSU in 1957.
Karamshoev graduated from the Dushanbe State Pedagogical Insti-
tute in 1956. In 1959, he joined the Rudaki Language and Literature In-
stitute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1967, he was ap-
pointed Director of Pamir Studies of the same institute. He received his
doctorate degree in philology in 1980 and became a professor in 1987.
Karamshoev research deals with the languages and dialects of the
peoples of the Pamir region, as well as with the folk literature of Pamir,
an aspect of the region that is of great importance but to which little at-
tention is paid. Karamshoev's contributions include Olimoni Soveti dar
Borai Pomir (Soviet Scholars' Views on the Pamirs, 1975), Badzhuvskii
dialekt shugnanskogo iazika (The Baljuan Dialect of the Shughnani
language, Dushanbe, 1963), and Shugnansko-russkii slovar' (A Shugh-
nani -Russian Dictionary, 1988).
Karamshoev is the recipient of the Red Banner of Courage and the
100
th
Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin awards.
Karimov, Buri
Tajik politician Buri Karimov, also referred to as Buri Karim, was
born in the village of Chorteppe in the Lenin district on December 9,
1957. He joined the CPSU in 1985.
Karimov graduated from the Tajikistan Polytechnic Institute in 1978
and, in absentia, from the Tajikistan State University in 1984. From
1984 to 1987, he was a candidate of science.
Karimov's career began in 1978. From then until 1981, he was the
Superintendent and then Senior Superintendent of the mobile column of
engineers of Hissar. From 1981 to 1983, he was the chief engineer of
the Union #1 of Dushanbe Road Construction. From 1983 to 1987, he
was a chief engineer, as well as the Head of the mobile column of engi-
neers of Hissar. In 1987, he became the Minister of Roads and Con-
struction of the Republic of Tajikistan. Karimov is the author of Fariodi
Solho (The Cry of Ages, Moscow, 1997). In this massive, but poorly or-

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