P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Nazarshoev, Moyonsho
Tajik historian Moyonsho Nazarshoev was born into a farmer's
family in Badakhshan on December 17, 1929. He joined the CPSU in
1953.
From 1947 to 1952, Nazarshoev studied at the Dushanbe
Pedagogical Institute. Then, for a year, he studied sociology at the State
University of Central Asia (Tashkent). Between 1953 and 1960, he was
a senior instructor of the History of Communism at the Kulab

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Pedagogical Institute. From 1958 to 1960, he was the Director of the

Department of Marxism-Leninism of the same institute. From 1960 to
1962, he was a senior teacher at Tajikistan State University,
simultaneously serving as the Secretary of the Party. In 1962, he
became the Director of the Ideology Division of the Central Committee
of the Republic. From 1963 to 1970, he was the First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Badakhshan. In 1970, he became the Prorector of
the Scientific Studies of Tajikistan State University. He received his
doctorate degree in history in 1980.
Nazarshoev's research deals with the leadership and structure of the
Communist Party of Badakhshan and with the spread of Communist
ideology in the Pamirs. His contributions include Tashkiloti Partiyovii
Badakhshoni Kuhi dar Muboriza Baroi Inkishofi Ma'orifi Khalq dar
Pomir (The Party Structure of Gorno-Badakhshan in the Struggle for
the Development of Education Among the Peoples of the Pamirs, 1971),
Tantanai Idiahoi Lenini Revolutsiyoi Madani dar Pomir (Echoes of the
Revolutionary Ideas of Lenin in the Pamirs, 1974), Partiinaia
organizatsia Pamira v bor'be za sotsializm i kommunizm ( Pamir Party
Structure in the Struggle for Socialism and Communism, 1970), and
Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe polozhenie dorevoliutsionnogo Pamira (The
Social and Economical Situation in Pamir Before the Revolution, 1975).
Nazarshoev was decorated with the Red Banner of Labor, the Red
Banner of Courage, and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Nazir, Usmon
Tajik intellectual, journalist, and researcher Usmon Nazir was born
in Mascho in 1940. He received his early education in Mascho.
Nazir graduated from Khujand University, and thereafter, taught and
researched the works of Nisori of Bukhara, the subject of his thesis for
candidate of science. For his doctorate degree he studied the historical
development of the Rubo'i (quatrain) genre, focusing on the Quatrains
of Umar Khayyam.
Nazir is a member of the Union of Tajik Writers as well as the
Union of Tajik Journalists. A Distinguished Contributor to Tajik
Culture, Nazir has received a number of State awards. He has traveled
extensively in Iran and the republics of the former Soviet Union.

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