P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography
The Institute was founded in 1951 as a multi-disciplinary scientific-research
institution working on the history of the Tajik people, the archaeology and
ethnography of the population of Tajikistan and Tajiks outside the country. Noted
Russian and Soviet orientalist A. A. Semenov was the first director of the institute.
The Institute consists of 6 departments:
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Current History
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Ancient, Medieval and Modern History
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Culture and Art History
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Archaeology and Numismatology
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Ethnography
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History of Science and Technology
In addition, the Institute has a restorational and technological laboratory and a
museum of ethnography.
The major fields of investigation of the Institute include
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History of the Tajik people: general regularities and specific peculiarities
(antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern and current time);
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Archaeology and historical-cultural problems in the history of the Tajik
people; and
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History and theory of art of the Tajik people.
The major scientific results of the Institute include a six-volume work entitled
History of the Tajik People. It encompasses the latest research presented in History,

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Archaeology, and Ethnography. The following other works of members of the

Institute should be mentioned:
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Masov, R. M. The Tajiks, History with signature stamp 'Absolutely secretly,'
Dushanbe, 1995.
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Mukhtarov, A. M. Bobojon Ghafurov, Dushanbe, 1993.
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Mirbabaev, A. K. The History of Tajikistan's Madrasa, (Part 1-2), Dushanbe,
1994.
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Shirokova, Z. A. Tajik Costumes of the End of the 19
th
and Beginning of the
20
th
 Centuries, Dushanbe, 1994.
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Maitdinova, G. M. The Costumes of Early Medieval Tokharistan: History,
Communications, Dushanbe, 1992.
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Dodkhudoeva, L. N. Epigraphic Monuments of Samarkand in the 11
th
 to 14
th
Centuries, Dushanbe, 1992.
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Babaeva, N. S. The Ancient Beliefs of Mountain Tajiks of Southern
Tajikistan in Funerary Mentional Rites (the End of 19
th
 and Beginning of the
20
th
 Centuries),  Dushanbe, 1993.
•
Iakubova, Yu. Ia. Tojikon-Tajiki (the Problem of Ethnogenesis of Tajiks),
Dushanbe, 1995.
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Iskandarov, B. I. The History of the Pamirs, Khorugh, 1996.
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Mukhtarov, A. M. Guzari (streets) of Ura-Tube, Tashkent, 1996.
•
Ashrafi, M. M. Miniatures of Samarkand of the 11
th
 Century, Tashkent,
1996.
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Mirbabaev, A. K. Khujandnoma, Khujand, 1996.
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Mukhtarov, A. M. Rulers of Uroteppa, Dushanbe, 1996.
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Rahmatullaeva, S. Medieval Architecture in Miniatures of Movarounnahr of
the 15
th
 Through the 17
th
 Centuries, Dushanbe, 1977.