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Murodov, Mukhtor
Tajik anesthesiologist Mukhtor Qodirovich Murodov was born in the
village of Khamirjuy in Konibodom on February 20, 1936.
Between 1959, when he graduated from Tajikistan State Medical
Institute, and 1964, he served as doctor of anesthesiology and
reanimatology of the Republic working at TB Hospital No. 1. Between

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1964 and 1967, he became an intern in the Department of General

Surgery. He earned a doctorate degree in anesthesiology and in
reanimatology in 1970. He became a professor in 1974. Between 1974
and 1978, he was the Director of the Anesthesiology and
Reanimatology Department of the Tajikistan State Medical Institute. In
1978, he became the Director of the same institute.
Murodov was instrumental in introducing new technologies for the
care of the aged and for artificial limbs. Murodov's research deals with
pathogeny and care of difficulties in breathing after surgery and with
pathophyiological changes in very grave cases. Murodov's contributions
include Diagnostika i lechenie milliarnogo atelektaza liogkikh
(Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Lung, Dushanbe,
1973).
Murtazoev, Bakhtiyor
Tajik poet and journalist Bakhtiyor Murtazoev, also referred to as
Murtazoev Buri, was born into a family of workers in the village of
Yabuz in Qabodion on May 23, 1940. He joined the CPSU in 1970.
Murtazoev graduated from Tajikistan State University with a degree
in Tajiki language and literature in 1963. Between 1963 and 1967, he
worked at Komsomoli Tojikiston. From 1986 to 1991, he worked first
for Adabiyot va San'at (until 1986), then for Sadoi Sharq. Beginning in
1991, he served the Associate Editor for the state newspaper, Sadoi
Mardum.
Murtazoev's first stories appeared in the Tajik press in the 1960s. His
contributions include "Qasidai Barodari" ("Ode to Brotherhood," 1975),
"Jon Bokhtai Rohati" ("Dead for Leisure," 1975), and "Chinor dar
Soloni" ("The Plane-Tree of Soloni," 1983). This latter work deals with
the contributions of the Tajiks to the construction of the Baikal-Amur
railway. His other contributions include "Odami Javhardor" ("A Man of
Substance," 1983), "Jui Navdiz" ("The Nadiz Stream," 1984), "Ihyoi
Bishkent" ("The Revival of Bishkent," 1984), and "Chasmhai Oftob"
("The Source of the Sun," 1987).
Murtazoev joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1983.
He won the Order of the Red Star.