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Hoshimov, Abdulra'uf

Tajik philosopher Abdulra'uf Hoshimov was born into a farming
family in the village of Qistakuz in Khujand on May 19, 1933. He
joined the CPSU in 1959.
After he graduated from the Translation Department of Tajikistan
State University, Hoshimov worked in various newspapers and journals
of the Republic. Between 1956 and 1969, he was a Junior Scientific
Worker then became a Senior Scientific Worker at the Philosophy De-
partment of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1965 to 1974,
he was an Assistant Professor, and from 1974 to 1982, he was a Profes-
sor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate
degree in philosophy in 1972. In 1982, he was the Director of the De-
partment of Sociology, Leninabad Branch of Tajik Polytechnic Institute.
Hoshimov's research deals with the establishment of the new rela-
tions, especially at the family level, among the populations of the re-
publics of Central Asia. Hoshimov's contributions include Nav Gholib u
Kuhna Maghlub (The New is Victorious and the Old is Defeated,
Dushanbe, 1972); Formirovanie novikh semeinobitovikh otnoshenii
narodov Srednei Azii (The Formation of the New Family Relations of
the Peoples of Central Asia, Dushanbe, 1972); and Sushchnost' i nravst-
vennie osnovi sem'i (The Substance and the Bases of Family Ethics,
Dushanbe, 1976).
Hoshimov was awarded the Honorary Order of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Hoshimov, Javod
Tajik physician Javod Mamedovich Hoshimov was born in Samar-
qand on November 11, 1914. He joined the CPSU in 1963.
Hoshimov graduated from Samarqand State Medical Institute in
1936. From 1936 to 1942, he interned at the Dushanbe Hospital for In-
fectious Diseases. Then, between 1942 and 1950, he was a Lecturer,
and from 1951 until 1953, he was Assistant Professor of Infectious Dis-
eases at the Tajik State Medical Institute. From 1953 to the end of his
life, he was the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the
same institute. He received his doctorate degree in medicine in 1967
and became a professor in 1968.
His contributions include "Klinichekie osobennosti briushnogo tifa v
poslednie godi," Zdravo-okhranenie Tadzhikistana, 1960. No. 2 ("The

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