P rominent t ajik f igures of the

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Kholiqov, Toji

Tajik roentgenologist Toji Kholiqovich Kholiqov was born in the
village of Kuchkak in the district of Konibodom of Leninabad on No-
vember 20, 1941.
Kholiqov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1964.
From 1969 to 1972, he was a Scientific Worker and the Acting Director
of the Institute of Gastroenterology of the Academy of Sciences of Taji-
kistan. Later, he became the Director of Roentgenology and radiology
of the same institute. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1979.
He and his staff introduced new principles of comparative roent-
genographics of catheterization and made them operational.
Kholiqov's research deals with the diagnosis of diseases of the diges-
tive system and dilution of the roentgenology of the veins.
Kholmatov, Isroil
Tajik otolaryngologist Isroil Bobojonovich Kholmatov was born in
the village of Oqteppa of the Nov district of Leninabad on February 2,
1928. He joined the CPSU in 1953.
Kholmatov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in
1950 and began to work there. He received his doctorate in medicine in
1972, and became a professor in 1976.
Kholmatov's research deals with chronic closure of the throat, as
well as problems of hearing. He is the chief otolaryngologist for chil-
dren in Tajikistan. His contributions include Nekotorie voprosi
izucheniia nasledctvennosti pri otoskleroze (Questions Regarding an
Understanding of Inherited Otosclerosis, Moscow, 1973).
Kholmatov became a Distinguished Scientist of the Soviet Union in
1968, and a recipient of the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan in 1978.
Kholov, Mahmadullo
Tajik politician Mahmadullo Kholov was born into a farming family
in the village of Boloshar in Gharm on January 2, 1920. He participated
in the Great Patriotic War. He joined the CPSU in 1947.
Kholov graduated from the Republican Party School at the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan in 1954, and the Ad-
vanced Party School at the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union in 1969.

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