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Yakubov, Abdullo
Tajik toxicologist Abdullo Yakubovich Yakubov was born in
Khujand on May 16, 1932.
Yakubov graduated from Tajikistan State Institute of Medicine in
1958. Until 1984, he worked on epidemiology and hygiene at the Insti-
tute of Scientific Research of the Republic's Ministry of Health. He re-
ceived his doctorate degree in medicine in 1981. In 1984, he became the

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Director of the Department of Animal Hygiene and Veterinarian Affairs

of the Institute of Agriculture of the Republic. He also was appointed
Head of Toxicology of the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan.
Yakubov's research deals with problems of hygiene, especially the
use of pesticides in cotton farming and herding, as well as the impact of
chemicals on the lives of farming and herding communities. Yakubov's
other contributions include Voprosi vodosnabzhenia v sviazi s prime-
neniem pestitsidov (Problems of Irrigation in Relation to the Use of
Pesticides, Dushanbe, 1972).
Yakubov was recognized as an Distinguished Contributor to Medical
Science at the Union level.
Yakubova, Muhiba
Tajik biologist Muhiba Muhsinovna Yakubova was born in Bukhara
on January 22, 1937. She joined the CPSU in 1967.
Yakubova graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1959. From
1961 to 1968, she was a Scientific Worker in the Physiology and Biol-
ogy of Plants Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Be-
tween 1968 and 1973, she was an Assistant Professor of the Department
of Plant Physiology. In 1974, she became Head of the Department of
Biochemistry of Tajikistan State University. She received her doctorate
degree in biology in 1984 and became a professor in 1986.
Yakubova's research deals with the organization of the interaction of
biochemical agents, especially in relation to photosynthesis.
Yakubova became a Distinguished Educator of Tajikistan in 1976.