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Yusufbekov became a Distinguished Contributor to Science in Taji-

kistan in 1978. He also won the Red Banner of Labor, a medal Named
After S. I. Vabilov, and the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Yusufbekov, Rustambek
Tajik economist Rustambek Yusufbekov was born in the village of
Rin in Ishkoshim on December 31, 1923. He joined the CPSU in 1945.
Yusufbekov graduated from Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1950.
He was a teacher and director of the Party Committee of Ishkashim
from 1940 to 1947. Then, between 1951 and 1954, he was a post-gradu-
ate student of the Academy of Sociology at the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1954 to 1956, he was a
teacher of political economy at the Party School, Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1956 until 1959, he was the
Director of the Department of Political Economy at Tajikistan State
University. From 1959 to 1962, he was the Acting Director of the sci-
entific branch of the schools of the Central Committee of the Commu-
nist Party of Tajikistan. He became a Corresponding Member of the
Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1966, a professor in 1969, and a
Doctor of Economics in 1971. Between 1963 to 1974, he was the Min-
ister of Education of Tajikistan, and from 1974 to 1984, the Acting Di-
rector of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tajikistan. In 1984, he became a
Professor in the Department of Economics of Tajikistan State Univer-
sity.
Yusufbekov's contributions include Ekonomicheskie problemi
sovershenstvovania narodnogo obrazovania (Economic Difficulties of
Completing People's Education, Dushanbe, 1971) and Tadzhikistan v
edinoi semie (Tajikistan in the Unique Family, Frunze, 1984).
Yusufbekov became a Distinguished Scientific Contributor to Tajik
culture in 1983. He is the recipient of two Orders of the Red Banner of
Labor, two Badges of Honor, medals, and the Honorary Order of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.