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ment of the Simob and Surma Mines in the System of Mines of Hissar

and Zaravshan, Dushanbe, 1978).
Yusufov is a recipient of the Order of the Red Star in 1944.
Yusufova, Sorojon
Tajik geologist Sorojon Yusufova was born in Bukhara on May 5,
1910. She joined the CPSU in 1962.
Yusufova graduated from the University of Samarqand in 1935.
Between 1940 and 1943, she worked at the Institute of Geology at the
Uzbek branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. She
worked from 1946 to 1948 at the Institute of Geology of the Tajikistan
branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, where she was
the Head of Geologic Studies pertaining to coal and oil. From 1940 un-
til the end of her life, she was the Director of the Department of Miner-
alogy and Petrography of Tajikistan State University. Yusufova re-
ceived her doctorate degree in geology and mineralogy in 1948, became
a professor in 1950, and an affiliate of the Academy of Sciences of
Tajikistan in 1951.
Yusufova's research deals with the mineral properties and chemical
elements in clay and loam, and with their geo-chemistry. Her contribu-
tions include Mineralogicheskie osobennost liossov Sr. Azii (Minera-
logical Peculiarities of Central Asia's Yellow Dust, Moscow, 1951) and
Khususiyathoi Mineralogii Lioshoi Vodii Vaksh ( Mineralogical Peculi-
arities of the Loess in the Vakhsh Valley, 1985).
Yusufova was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Science
in Tajikistan in 1960. She died in Dushanbe on May 15, 1966.

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Zavqibekov, Gurminj
Tajik actor Gurminj Zavqibekov was born on May 1, 1929, in the
village of
Shujand
in
Rushon,
Badakhshan.
He joined
the CPSU in
1966.
Zavqibekov graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Theater and
Painting in 1954. In 1977, he became the Director of the Lahuti State
Academy of Dramatic Arts. Zavqibekov is partial to the portrayal of
positive, decisive, upright, and kind heroes. A realist actor, he tends to
distance himself from flights of fancy and hyperbole. The roles he has
performed include Frunze in Hurriat (Freedom), by Gh. Abdullo, 1964;
Ghafur in Boi va Khizmatgor (The Richman and the Servant), by Hamza
Hakimzoda Niyozi, 1957; Mach and Akbar in Rudaki (Rudaki), by S.
Ulughzoda, 1973; Urtaboev in the film Odam Pustashro Ivaz Mikunad
(Man Changes His Skin), directed by R. Perlshtein, 1959; and others.
Zavqibekov's contribution to stage include Saidali in Tufon (Storm),
by Gh. Abdullo and Sh. Qiomov, 1957; Kent in Shoh Lir (King Lear ),
by W. Shakespeare, 1957; Kamol in Man--Fakhriddinov (I Am
Fakhriddinov), by J. Ikromi, 1961; Rustam in Rustam va Suhrob
(Rustam and Suhrab), by Gh. Abdullo, 1967; and many others.
Zavqibekov became a People's Artist of Tajikistan and won the
Rudaki State Prize in 1966.