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Karimov graduated from the Leninabad Institute of History and Phi-

lology in 1946. From 1946 to 1948, he was the Director of the Uroteppa
Institute of Pedagogy. The following year, he served as an inspector for
public schools of Leninabad. From 1948 to 1964, he was the Dean of
the Faculty of History and Philology of the Tajikistan State University.
From 1964 to 1972, he taught Soviet History and Scientific Commu-
nism at the Kulab Pedagogical Institute. He became a Doctor of History
in 1969, and a professor in 1970. In 1972, he became the Professor in
charge of the instruction of the History of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union at the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. In 1979, he became
the Director of that institute. Karimov's contributions include Pobeda
Velikoi Oktiabrskoi Sotsiailisticheskoi revoliu tsii v Severnom Tadzhi-
kistona (The Victory of the Great October Revolution in Northern Taji-
kistan, Stalinabad, 1957); Revolutsiyai Solhoi 1905-07 dar Tojikiston
(The 1905-1907 Revolutions in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1965); Shurishi
Soli 1916 dar Tojikiston (The 1916 Revolution in Tajikistan, Dushanbe,
1966); Haidar Usmonov (Haidar Usmonov, Dushanbe, 1967); Saidjon
Nazarov (Saidjon Nazarov, Dushanbe, 1967); Jura Zokirov (Jura Zoki-
rov, Dushanbe, 1974); Ghalabai Hokimiyati Soveti dar Tojikiston (The
Victory of Soviet Rule in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1974); and Onho
Avvalin Budand (They Were the First, Dushanbe, 1978).
Karimov was the recipient of the Red Banner of Courage, the 100
th
Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin Prize, and the Honorary Order of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.
Karimov, Usmonjon
Tajik linguist and intellectual Usmonjon Karimov was born into a
family of farmers in Kasansay in the Namangan province of Uzbekistan
in 1934.
Karimov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1960, and in
1988, received his doctorate degree in language and literature. His early
works deal with Tajik literature of the second part of the 18th and the
beginning of the 19th centuries. He studied the literary, stylistic, and
aesthetic aspects of that literature, as well as the impact of that literature
on Tajik society. Author of a considerable body of literature, Karimov
also contributed to the compilation of the Russian Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti
Jahoni (History of World Literature). He is also the author of separate

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