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Soviet of Tajikistan. He was also recognized as a Distinguished

Scientific Contributor to Health in Tajikistan in the 1960s.
Ahmadov died in Dushanbe on January 28, 1975.
Ahmadov, Homid
Tajik historian Homid Ahmadov was born in Konibodom in 1932.
He joined the CPSU in 1955.
Ahmadov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1953. In
1954, he became the Head of the Division for Marxist-Leninist Studies
of the same institute. Between 1962 and 1974, he served as the Head of
the Department of Soviet History of Tajikistan State University. In
April 1974, he was appointed the Dean of Tajikistan State University's
Evening School. Finally, in 1975, he became the Head of the
Department of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He received his doctorate degree in history in 1978 and his
professorship in 1978.
Ahmadov's contributions include KPSS--Tashkilotchii Jam'bast va
Jori Kardani Tajribai Pishqadam dar Pakhtakori (The Communist
Party of the Soviet Union--the Role of the Collector and the Distributor
of First-Hand Information Among Cotton Workers, 1969), Bo Rohi
Asosi (Using The Basic Method, 1973), and KPSS dar Muboriza Baroi
Intensifikatsiyoi Pakhtakori (Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Its
Battle for the Intensification of Cotton Planting, 1976), and others.
Ahmadov, Karim
Tajik physiologist Karim Yusufovich Ahmadov was born in
Khujand on November 19, 1917. He joined the CPSU in 1943.
Ahmadov graduated from the Tashkent State Medical Institute in
1941. He joined the war effort and served as the main medical doctor
for his regiment until 1945. He became an intern in 1947 and, in 1948,
he became the representative of the United Congresses of Physiologists.
Between 1953 and 1957, Ahmadov was the Minister of Health; in 1959,
he was an Assistant Professor; and in 1966, he became the Head of the
Committee organizing the 30
th
Congress of Physiologists of Central
Asia and Kazakhstan held in Dushanbe. In 1967, Ahmadov became the
Head of the Department of Normal Physiology of the Republic. In the
same year he received his doctorate degree in medicine. In 1968 he
became a professor.

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