P rominent t ajik f igures of the

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Ahmadov, Bakhtiyor

Tajik oncologist Bakhtiyor Pochomirovich Ahmadov was born into
a family of workers in Khujand on June 26, 1933.
Ahmadov graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in
1956. From 1957 to 1959, he was the Chief Doctor of the Leninabad
Oncology Dispensary, as well as the Director of Oncology for all the
districts of northern Tajikistan. Between 1960 and 1963, he was a post-
graduate student at the Clinical and Experimental Oncology Institute of
the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (Moscow). The following
year, he became the Director of the Surgery Division of the Oncology
Dispensary of the Republic. He was also an Assistant Professor at the
Department of Clinical Surgery of the Medical Institute, as well as the
Chief Oncologist at the Ministry of Health. Between 1965 and 1973, he
served as the Head of the Oncology Association and as the Associate
Director of the Union of Surgeons of the Republic. In 1973, he became
the Head of the Oncology Department of the Tajikistan State Medical
Institute. He received his doctorate degree in medicine in 1977.
Ahmadov's research deals with the diagnosis and treatment of
stomach cancer and the swelling of the skeleton in people with cancer.
His contributions include Anatomiya sosudov opukholei (The Anatomy
of the Swelling of Veins, Dushanbe, 1974); Bibliografia Otechestvennoi
literaturi po raku zheludka za 50 let (Bibliography of State Literature
on Stomach Cancer Written in the Last 50 Years, Dushanbe, 1957).
 Ahmadov, Dodojon
The first Tajik endocrinologist, Dodojon Mahmudovich Ahmadov
was born in Khujand on December 15, 1915. He joined the CPSU in
1949.
Ahmadov graduated from the Treatment Department of the Tajiki-
stan State Medical Institute in 1939. Between 1940 and 1945, he con-
tributed to the war effort as a Major in the Medical Corps. For the next
decade, he worked in various medical institutions in Leninabad. From
1949 to 1955, he served as the Acting Minister of Health of Tajikistan.
Ahmadov defended his dissertation in 1959 and, in 1960, became the
Head of the endocrinologists of the Republic. Also from 1959 until
1970, he was the Chief Doctor of endocrinology at the Republic level.
Ahmadov was decorated with the Order of the Red Star, the Badge
of Honor, and several medals awarded by the Presidium of the Supreme

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