P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Boboev, Yuri
Tajik scholar and literary critic Yuri Boboev was born in Samarqand
in 1917. He joined the CPSU in 1948.
Boboev graduated from the University of Samarqand with a degree
in Persian and Tajiki languages and literatures in 1945. In 1947, he
joined the staff of Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. In 1952, he became
a Scientific Worker at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. He has
written a considerable number of articles on literary criticism, especially
dealing with the works of Sadriddin Aini, Tursunzoda, Lahuti, and
Ikromi. His contributions include "Aini: Ustodi Barrasi dar Tafakkur"
("Aini: A Master Investigator of Thought," 1956), "Mirzo Tursunzoda"
("Mirzo Tursunzoda, " 1961), "Sipahsolori Nazm" ("The Commander of
Verse, " 1971), "Adabiyoti Shavravii" "Tojik" ("Soviet Tajik Literature,

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with Nosirjon Ma'sumi, " 1985-1987), "Hizb, Zamon va Adabiyot"

("Party, Time, and Literature, " 1964), "Hayot, Qahramon va Adabiyot"
("Life, the Hero, and Literature, " 1978), "Simo va Mahorat" ("Appear-
ance and Skill, " 1979), and "Muqaddamai Shinokhti Adabiyot" ("Intro-
duction to Literary Criticism, " 1974).
He has received two medals and the Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Boboeva, Khosiat
Tajik historian Khosiat Qosimovna Boboeva was born into a mer-
chant family in Khujand on December 5, 1923. She joined the CPSU in
1942.
Boboeva graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Leni-
nabad Pedagogical Institute in 1942. From 1942 to 1946, she worked at
the Stalinabad Party offices, and from 1947 to 1951, she was a post-
graduate student at the University of Moscow. In 1954, she became the
Party Committee Secretary of the Leninabad region. In 1956, she be-
came an Assistant Professor at the Tajikistan State University and, in
1959, she was promoted to the Head of the Department of the History of
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Political Economy of the
Tajikistan State Medical Institute. She received her doctorate degree in
history in 1974 and became a professor in 1978.
Boboeva's research deals with the history of the formation of work-
ers' organizations and their unification with the farmers of the Republic.
She is also interested in the role of the Communist Party of Tajikistan in
both the formal organizations and the coming together of the factory
and farm workers. Boboeva's contributions include Soyuz rabochego
klassa i krest'ianstva Tadzhikistana v period postroenii sotsializma (The
Union of Workers and Farmers of Tajikistan During the Socialist Era,
Dushanbe, 1974); and Okhrana zdorovia naroda--sostavnaia chast' sot-
sial'noi programmi Kommunisticheskoi partii (People's Healthcare: A
Major Part of the Program of the Communist Party, Dushanbe, 1984).
Boboeva was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik
Education in 1963. She is a recipient of the Badge of Honor and the
Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

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