P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Zihni, Turequl
Tajik poet and author Turequl Narziqulov Zihni was born in Samar-
qand in 1892. He received his early education first from his father, and
later, at the schools of Samarqand.
Zihni graduated from the Samarqand Pedagogical Institute in 1919.
He proceeded to work at the same institution until 1935. Between 1940
and 1945, he taught Persian at Samarqand State University, and from
1956 until the end of his life, he was a researcher at the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan.
Zihni's first poems appeared in 1919 and 1920 in the monthly Shu'lai
Inqilob. His later works include "Omuzish" ("Learning," 1928); Tar-
onahoi Kudakona (Childish Songs, 1933); "Sanoye'i Badii dar Shi'ri
Tojik" ("Artistic Devices in Tajik Poetry," 1963); "San'ati Sukhan"

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("The Art of Words," 1970); and "Sukhanvaron Saiqali Rui Zamin"

("Speakers are the Polish of the Earth," 1973).
Zihni died in Dushanbe in 1983.
Zikriyoev, Faizi
Tajik historian Faizi Zikriyoev was born in Maschoh on April 10,
1937. He received his early education at a Soviet school in Maschoh.
Zikriyoev graduated from the Tajikistan State National University
with a degree in history in 1959, and became a teacher in the Depart-
ment of Sociology of the Tajikistan State Technological University. He
also served as a post-graduate, teacher, and Assistant Professor at the
Department of History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Zikriyoev's contributions include "Komsomoli Tojikiston Baroi
Rushdi Tekniki" ("Tajikistan Komsomol for Development of Technol-
ogy," 1971), "Bahri Hayoti Osishta" ("Towards a Tranquil Life," 1970),
"Leninskii Komsomol v usloviyakh razvitovo sotsializma na materi-
alakh Tadzhikoi SSR" ("Progressive Socialist Conditions of the Lenin-
Type Komsomols in Soviet Tajik Situations," 1985), "Ta'rikhi Siosii
Khalqi Tojik va Jahon" ("Political History of the Tajiks and the World,"
1995), and others.
Zikriyoev has traveled in the former Soviet Union, mostly to Kiev
and Moscow in pursuit of scholarly activity.