P rominent t ajik f igures of the

participated in the Great Patriotic War. He joined the CPSU in 1944.
Nu'monov graduated from the Leninabad State Pedagogical Institute
in 1947. From 1947 to 1971, he was a post-graduate student, Senior
Scientific Worker, and the Director of the Fossil Fuel Laboratory of the
Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He
received his doctorate in chemistry in 1970, and became a professor in
1971. In the same year, he became the Director of the Institute of
Chemistry.
Combining his theoretical studies with his pedagogical efforts,
Nu'monov has created a series of course modules on organic chemistry
for instruction at the advanced levels used in many of the institutes and
universities of the Republic.
Nu'monov received the Order of the Patriotic War, 1
st
and 2
nd
Class,
the Order of the Red Star, and other medals.

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Nuraliev, Yusuf
Tajik pharmocologist Yusuf Nuralievich Nuraliev was born in the
village of Nulvand of Darvoz, Badakhshan, on October 5, 1936. He
received his early education at the elementary schools of Sangevn of
Darvoz and the small town of Gharm in the Gharm region (1950-55).
Nuraliev graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in
1961. In 1961 and 1962, he was an intern. Between 1963 and 1966, he
was a post-graduate fellow. During 1967 and 1968, he was a Lecturer at
the Department of Pharmacology of Tajikistan State Medical Institute.
From 1969 to 1972, he was a doctoral candidate at the Leninabad State
Institute of Medicine. Nuraliev became a candidate for a doctorate
degree in pharmocology in 1973. In the same year, he was appointed the
Director of the Pathophysiology and Experimental Pharmocotherapy of
the Institute of Gastroenterology of the Academy of Sciences of
Tajikistan. In 1974, he defended his dissertation, Farmokolojie Mumia
(The Pharmocology of Wax), with success, and received his doctorate
degree. From 1974 to 1996, he was the Director of the Pharmological
Division of the Institute of Gastroenterology of the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan. During 1996 and 1997, he was Chief Director of
Medicine, as well as Head of the Committee of Pharmocology of the
Ministry of Health of the Republic. From 1997 to the present, he has
been a Professor of Pharmocology at the Ibn Sina Medical College, as
well as a Senior Scientific Worker in the History of Medicine at the
Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan.
Nuraliev's research deals with the history of medicine of the Perso-
Tajik peoples, the efficacy of medicinal plants, and the healing values
of wax. His contributions include Mumiyo i ego lechebnie svoistva
(Wax and Its Natural Healing Properties, Dushanbe, 1976); Meditsina
epokhi avitsenni (Medicine at the Time of Avicenna, Dushanbe, 1980);
Meditsinskie traktati Avitsenni (Avicenna's Medical Treatiese,
Dushanbe, 1982); Giyohhoi Dorugi (Medicinal Plants, Dushanbe, 1989
and 1999); Giyohdarmonii Sangi Kulya (Botanical Treatment of Kidney
Stones, Dushanbe 1997); 110 Retsephoi Ibn Sina (Avicenna's 110
recipes, 1999 and 2000).

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