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Dodkhudoev, Nazarsho
Tajik politician and public figure Nazarsho Dodkhudoev was born
on December 20, 1915, into a farming family of the village of Derzud in
Badakhshan. He received his early education in Khorogh.
Dodkhudoev graduated from the Badakhshan Pedagogical College in
1934. In 1949 and 1950, he attended the Academy of Sciences state
management course. He received his doctorate degree in economics
from the Tashkent Economics University in 1969.
Dodkhudoev began his career as the Director of Badakhshoni Surkh
in 1934. From 1935 to 1938, he served the government in Khorogh and
Obi Garm. From 1938 to 1941, he was the Chief Editor and Director of
Pioniri Tojikiston and Vasiyyati Lenin, respectively. From 1950 to
1956, he was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan. From
1956 to 1961, he was the Prime Minister of Tajikistan, as well as the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic.

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Dodkhudoev retired in 1992. His contributions include several books

about Tajikistan. He received the Order of the Distinguished Worker of
Tajikistan in 1945. He also received four Orders of Lenin and the Order
of "Dusti." Dodkhudoev, an untiring contributor to the welfare of Taji-
kistan in the latter part of the twentieth century, died on June 30, 2000.
Dodkhudoev, Rahim
Tajik linguist Rahim Khalilovich Dodkhudoev was born into a
farming family in the village of Sokhchar in Shughnan on June 15,
1928. He joined the CPSU in 1950.
Dodkhudoev graduated from the Tajikistan State University in 1958
and remained at that university as a teacher until 1980. From 1980 to
1984, he was the Rector of the Institute of Russian Language and Lit-
erature of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate degree in 1980 and be-
came a professor in 1983. In 1984, he became a Senior Scientific
Worker at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences
of Tajikistan.
Dodkhudoev's research deals with the history of the development of
Pamirian phonetics, the establishment and development of Iranian lan-
guages, and their etymology. He is also interested in reducing the
lesser-known Pamiri languages into writing. He is the author of Lughati
Heterogrammahoi Pahlavi (A Dictionary of Pahlavi Heterograms,
1969) and Dasturi Mukhtasari Ta'rikhi Zaboni Tojiki (A Brief History of
the Tajiki Language, 1978). His other contributions include Materiali
po istoricheskoi fonetike shugnanskogo iazika (Information about Pho-
netics in the History of the Shughnani Language, Dushanbe, 1962) and
Pamirskai mikrotoponimia (Pamiri Microtoponymy, Dushanbe, 1975).
Dodkhudoev was a Distinguished Contributor to Education in Taji-
kistan in 1964 and of the Soviet Union in 1973. He is a recipient of the
Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.