P rominent t ajik f igures of the

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Mirzoev, Rustam

Tajik economist Rustam Qurbonovich Mirzoev was born in
Dushanbe on January 28, 1942.
Mirzoev graduated from the Moscow Institute of Agriculture in
1969, and received his doctorate in economics in 1984. From 1969 to
1972, he taught industrial economics at Tajikistan State University.
From 1972 to 1975, he was the Head of the Committee on Prices at the
Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic. Between 1975 and 1977, he was a
Junior, then Senior Scientific Worker at the Academy of Sciences of
Tajikistan. In 1977, he became the Instructions Director of the
Production Division of the same institution.
Mirzoev's research deals with discovering generative methods for
the production of industrial goods, methods for increasing public
utilities, and ways for putting reservoirs of labor to work. Mirzoev's
contributions include Nauchno-tekhnicheskii progress i povishenie
effektivnosti proizvodstva (Scientific-Technical Progress and the Rise in
Production Benefits, Dushanbe, 1982).
Mirzozoda, Kholiq
Tajik intellectual Kholiq Mirzozoda was born on May 11, 1911, into
a family of poor farmers in the village of Ravonak, near Samarqand. He
joined the CPSU in 1946.
Mirzozoda graduated from the Philology Department of Samarqand
State University in 1935, after which he relocated to Dushanbe, where
he taught at the high school and college levels. From 1958 to 1959, he
served as the director of the language and literature division of the
Academy of Sciences; between 1959 and 1985, he served as the head of
the literature division of the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. Between
1987 and 1991, when he passed away, he was a professor at Samarqand
State University.
Mirzozoda's major works include Abu Abdullo Rudaki Asosguzori
Adabiyoti Tojik (Abu Abdullo Rudaki, Founder of Tajik Literature,
1958), Adabiyoti Kelosiki Tojik (Classical Tajik Literature, 1958),
Aqoidi Ziddi Dini dar Adabiyoti Tojik (Anti-Religious Ideas in Tajik
Literature, 1966), Nuqta Nazari Ziddi Dini dar Adabiyoti Kelosiki Fors
va Tojik (Anti-Religious Points of View in the Literatures of the
Persians and the Tajiks, 1978), and Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti Tojik (The
History of Tajik Literature, 1976).

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