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and served as the Chief Editor of the Turkish monthly, Bukhara, and

other Bukhara-related publications. Between 1924 and 1927, he became
the first Minister of Education of the Autonomous Republic of
Tajikistan. In this capacity, he endeavored to eliminate all vestiges of
illiteracy from Tajikistan.
Aliev's career in science and pedagogy began in 1933, when he
taught at the State University of Central Asia. Then, between 1940 and
1945, he was the Head of the Department of History of the Ancient
Orient and the Peoples of the Soviet Union at the Dushanbe State
Pedagogical Institute, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of History. He
was also one of the first translators of classical Marxist-Leninist
literature. During the period between 1940 and 1958, he also taught
Soviet Cultural History at Kyrgyzstan State University, Kazakhstan
State University, and the University of Ukraine. His major work, Velikii
Oktiabr' i revoliutsionizirovanie narodov Bukhari (The Great October
and the Revolutionary Path Chosen by the Peoples of Bukhara) was
published in Tashkent in 1958.
In 1922, Aliev was the recipient of the Order of Gold Star awarded
by the Central Executive Committee of the Peoples Republic of
Bukhara.
Aliev died in Alma-Ata (now Almaty) on January 16, 1958.
Aliev, Ghulom
Tajik zoologist and selectionist Ghulom Alievich Aliev was born on
December 20, 1915, in Samarqand. He joined the CPSU in 1940.
Aliev graduated from the Samarqand Institute of Agriculture in
1934, and from 1934 to 1935 worked at the Ghuzor Sovkhoz for raising
Karakol sheep. From 1935 to 1937, he was a Lecturer at the Department
of Genetic Increase in Quadrupeds in the same institute. Between 1937
and 1942, he was a post-graduate student, as well as the Head of
Tajikistan's Division at the Experimental Herding Station. From 1945 to
1950, he served as the Director of the Tajik Division of the Institute of
Research on Herding at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Aliev
became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of
Tajikistan in 1951 and an Academician in 1953. He was the Acting
President of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan between 1953 and
1958, and from 1958 to 1962, he was the Associate Minister of
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agriculture in 1965. He served as the Rector of the Institute of

Agriculture in 1973.
Aliev's research, which started in 1945, is focused on the raising of
"gusfandi Tajiki" or Tajik sheep, a variety of sheep richer in wool, fat,
and meat than the ordinary sheep. His contributions include Tadzhik-
skaya miasa-sal'no-sherstnaya poroda ovets (The Breed of Tajik Sheep
for Wool, Fat, and Meat, Dushanbe, 1967).
Aliev was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist in the Republic in
1975, and is the recipient of four Red Star for Labor awards, as well as
the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of
Tajikistan. He garnered the Ibn Sina State Prize in 2001. He was also
recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Science in 2001 for de-
veloping a new variety of sheep.
Aliev has traveled in Iran, England, Italy, United States, France,
Mexico, and Canada.