P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

183
Muhabbatzoda is a recipient of the Union of Writers of the Soviet

Union Award for Youth, Ah Youth (1977), the Nicolai Ostrovskii Prize
(1982), the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1986), a Distinguished Artist
(1994), the Rudaki State Prize (1998), the Order of Sharaf (1999), and
the Badge of Honor.
Muhabbatzoda has traveled to Yugoslavia, Rumania, Finland, India,
Afghanistan, Iran, and Russia.
Muhammad Ghoib
See Ghoibov, Mahmad.
Muhammadiev, Ergash
Tajik mathematician Ergash Muhammadiev was born on August 10,
1941, in Asht in northern Tajikistan. He received his early education in
Asht.
Muhammadiev graduated with distinction from the Tajikistan State
University with a degree in physics and mathematics in 1964. He then
continued his education into post-graduate work at Voronezh, where he
defended his dissertation in 1967. He became a doctor of Physics and
Mathematics in 1980. He worked from 1967 at the University of
Voronezh. In 1973, he joined the faculty of Tajikistan State University,
and serving in the Department of Analytical Physics. In 1976, he
became the Acting Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the
Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1981, he became the Director of
Practical Mathematics of the same institute.
Muhammadiev's research deals with the calculation of the turns of
certain vector fields, the functional structure for differentials, and the
general resolution of differentials.
Muhammadiev, Fazluddin
Tajik short-story writer and novelist Fazluddin Aminovich
Muhammadiev was born into the family of a bookbinder on June 15,
1928, in Samarqand. He joined the CPSU in 1951.
Muhammadiev attended the Moscow Aviation Department which he
gave up after his father's death to work on the farm. For a time he was
the Secretary of the Union of Writers of Tajikistan. Between 1947 and
1949, Muhammadiev was a contributing correspondent for Tajikistoni
Surkh. After graduating from the Central Komsomol in Moscow, he

---