P rominent t ajik f igures of the

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Sobirov, Sulton

Tajik chemist Sulton Sobirovich Sobirov was born in Khujand on
January 21, 1933. He joined the CPSU in 1972.
Sobirov graduated from Leninabad Medical Institute, and the
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute of Leningrad in 1963. From
1963 to 1967, he was a post-graduate student. Then, between 1967 and
1970, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry
of Tajikistan State Medical Institute. In 1970, he became the Director of
the Department of Organic Chemistry of the same institute.
Sobirov's research deals with the problems of the synthesis of pri-
mary, secondary, and tertiary alcohol with acetylene and diacetylene.
He has synthesized more than 400 new compounds most of which have
passed required tests.
Sobirov, Temur
Tajik mathematician Temur Sobirov was born in the village of
Sufion in Orjonikidzeobod on April 3, 1940. He joined the CPSU in
1966.
Sobirov graduated from Tajikistan State University with a degree in
physics and mathematics in 1961. For a while, he worked in the Physics
and Mathematics Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan;
then he entered the University of Voronezh as a post-graduate student.
From 1968 to 1975, he served as a senior instructor. Between 1975 and
1977, he was the Head of the Department of Algebra and Geometry of
the Pedagogical Institute of Voronezh. He received his doctorate in
mathematics and physics in 1977. In the same year, he also was pro-
moted to professor.
Sobirov's research dealt with differential equations. His main contri-
butions, including the following, were in his training of the Tajikistani
cadres Issledovanie po teorii rozhdenia malikh periodicheskikh reshenii
iz sostoiania ravnovesia v nelineinikh sistemakh differentsial'nikh urav-
nenii (Research in the Theory of Short-period Resolution in a Nonlinear
Structure in a Differential Exchange, Moscow, 1981).
Sobirov died in Orjonikidzeobod on June 23, 1977.
Sobirov, Tohir
Tajik actor and movie director Tohir Mukhtarovich Sobirov was
born in Dushanbe on December 21, 1929.

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