P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Partia-Oktiobr" ("Lenin-Party-October"), "Taronahoi Mihnat" ("Songs
of Labor"), "Bio Yoram" ("Come Here, My Love"), and "Murghi
Sahar" ("Midnight Bird").
Nazriev participated in the Decade of Tajik Art in Moscow in 1957,
as well as in the Fourth Festival of Youths and Students (Moscow,

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1959). As a member of various artistic groups, he traveled to

Afghanistan and Iran.
A student of Sharif Juraev, Nazriev became a People's Artist of
Tajikistan in 1955. He received the Badge of Honor, medals, and the
Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Nazriev, Jurabek
Tajik artist Jurabek Nazriev was born in the village of Navruhon in
the district of Khavaling, Khatlan, on June 23, 1946. He received his
early education in the village of his birth.
Nazriev graduated from the Institute of History and Philology of the
Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1968. In the same year he became a
post-graduate candidate at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the
Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1969 and 1970, he served in the
Soviet Army. In 1974, he defended his thesis entitled Maktabi Shirozi
va Matni Ilmi-Intiqodii Masnavii "Laili va Majnun"-i U (Shirazi's
School and the Scientific-Critical Text of His "Layli and Majnun"). This
work was published in Dushanbe in 1983.
In 1975 and 1976, Nazriev worked in Afghanistan as a translator.
Upon his return, he was employed as a Senior Scientific Worker at the
Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan. Between 1981 and 1991, he served in various
positions there, including the Director of the Institute of Written
Heritage. From 1991 to the present he has been the Director of the
Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage. In 1996, he defended
his dissertation entitled Rivoyoti 'Biblio' vo 'Qur'an' Roji' ba Sulaimon
va Tahavvuli on dar Adabiyoti Forsu-Tojik (Bible Stories and Stories in
the Qur'an About Solomon and their Development in the Literature of
the Fars-Tajik Peoples). This work was published in Dushanbe in 1996.
Nazriev's other contributions include Noma va Noma Nigori dar
Shohnoma (Letters and Letter Writing in the Shahname, Tehran, 2000);
Layli va Majnuni Maktabii Shirozi va Matni Ilmi-Intiqodii On (Maktani
Shirazi's Layli and Majnun and Its Scientific-Critical Text); Qissai
Sulaimon va Malikai Sabo dar Nazmi Forsi-Tojiki (The Story of
Solomon and Sheba In Perso-Tajik Poetry).
Nazriev has traveled to Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Germany,
Greece, Turkey, United States, and the Czech Republic.

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