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Mukhtorov, Ahror

Tajik historian Ahror Mukhtorov was born in Uroteppa on
November 5, 1924. He received his early education in the traditional
schools. He joined the CPSU in 1952.
Between 1939 and 1941, Mukhtorov studied at the Dushanbe
Pedagogical Institute and from 1942 to 1947 he served in the Soviet
army.
Mukhtorov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in
1951. In 1955, he became an instructor and a post-graduate student at
the same institute. In 1959, he became the Director of the Medieval
History Division of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences
of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate degree in history in 1971, and
became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of
Tajikistan in 1978.
Mukhtorov's research deals with the history of the Tajiks during the
Middle Ages. In this context, he has edited and published many docu-
ments that shed light on aspects of the history of the region. His contri-
butions, in addition to the three-volume Ta'rikhi Khalqi Tojik (The
History of the Tajiks), include Materiali po istorii Ura-Tiube, Sbornik
aktov XVII-XIX vv. (Materials for the History of Uroteppa, Collection
marked 17
th
 to 19
th
 Centuries, Moscow, 1963); Ocherk istorii Ura-Ti-
ubinskogo vladenia v XIX v. (Essay on the History of Uroteppa in the
19
th
 Century, Dushanbe, 1964); Rez'ba po derevu v doline Zarafshana
(Wood Carving in the Zarafshan Valley, Moscow, 1966); Dil'shod i ee
mesto v istorii obshchestvennoi misli tadzhikskogo naroda v XIX-
nachale XX vv. (Dilshod and His Status in the Intellectual History of the
Tajiks at the End of the 19
th
 and Beginning of the 20
th
 Centuries,
Dushanbe, 1969); and Bobojon Ghafurov (Bobojon Ghafurov, Du-
shanbe, 1992).
Mukhtorov was decorated with three medals and the Honorary Order
of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.