P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Yaqubova, Munira
Tajik pediatrician Munira Yaqubova was born on July 1, 1932, in
Bukhara.
Yaqubova graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1956,
then continued her studies in the children's wards of the same institute.
From 1958 to 1963, she was first Associate Director, and later Director
of the Dushanbe Children's Hospital No. 2. In 1963, she became the
Head of the Department of Pediatrics of the Medical Institute. She be-
came a doctor in 1972, and a professor in the same year.
Yaqubova has written extensively on children's diseases and super-
vised such journals as Tandurusti (Health) and Pediatria (Pediatrics).
Yaqubova's contributions include Osnovnie Kliniko-rentgenologicheskie

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metodi diagnostiki kholetsistitov u detei, (Diagnosis and Treatment of

Kidney Disease in Children, Dushanbe, 1966).
Yodgori, Shohmuzaffar
Tajik poet Shah Muzaffar Yodgori was born in the village of
Buzkushak in the district of Vose' in the Kulab province, on January 1,
1940.
Yodgori graduated from Tajikistan State University with a degree in
Persian language and literature in 1962. He worked at Tojikistoni Soveti
from 1962 to 1976. In 1978, he became the Chief Editor of Rohi Lenini
of Kulab.
Yodgori's first poems were published in 1958. His contributions in-
clude "Yak Shokha Gul" ("A Rose Stem," 1970), "Sohili Bakht" ("The
Shore of Fortune," 1977), "Dargohi Dihqon" ("The Farmer's Thresh-
old," 1980), "Farzandon" ("Offspring," 1982), and "Simoi Khalq" ("The
Face of the Masses," 1984). Many of his other poems appear in the
journals of the time.
Yodgori joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1974.
Yusufbekov, Khudoyor
Tajik agriculturalist Khudoyor Yusufbekovich Yusufbekov was born
in the village of Pish of Shughnan, Badakhshan, on December 10, 1928.
He joined the CPSU in 1966.
Yusufbekov graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy of Tajikistan,
Institute of Agriculture, in 1954. From 1954 to 1957, he was a Senior
Scientific Worker in the Botanical Gardens in Pamir for the Academy
of Sciences of Tajikistan. Between 1957 and 1960, he was the Director
of the Institute of Biology of Pamir. He received his doctorate degree in
agriculture in 1969. Already a Corresponding Member since 1968, he
became an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in
1976. From 1981 to 1986, he was Dean of the Tajikistan Institute of
Agriculture. In 1986, he became the Academic Secretary of the Biology
Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Yusufbekov's re-
search deals with the natural environment of the Pamirs, especially fo-
cusing on strategies to increase the amount of grazing grass in the area.
Yusufbekov's contributions include Rastitel'nost' Zapadnogo Pamira
i opit eyo rekonstruktsii (West Pamir Plants and Experiments for Their
Revival, with O. E. Agakhanianits, Dushanbe, 1975).

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