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Khromov, Albert

Soviet
Orientalist, philologist,
and
Iranist
Albert Leonidovich
Khromov was born into a worker's family in Novgorod on August 28,
1930.
Khromov graduated from Moscow State University in 1954. Be-
tween 1954 and 1964, he was a Junior, and later, Senior Scientific
Worker at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1964 until 1968, he was the Director of
Foreign Languages of Tajikistan State University. From 1968 until
1971, he was a Senior Scientific Worker in the Department of Tajiki
Language, and, later Assistant Professor at Tajikistan State University.
He received his doctorate degree in philology in 1970 and became a
professor in 1971. In the same year, he became Professor of Persian
Language in the Department of Persian Language of the same univer-
sity. In 1981, he became a Senior Scientific Worker at the Institute of
Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.
Although Khromov's research began with a study of the Mastchohi
Kuhi dialect of Tajiki, later, it expanded to include Yaghnobi and Sugh-
dian as well. It also deals with questions of the toponymy of the past
and the present areas now known as the republics of Central Asia, as
well as with a comparison among Iranian languages, the history of Ira-
nian philology, and the jargon and languages of Iranian people.
Khromov was an expert in Sughdian which he learned through elec-
tronic means. His contributions include Govori tadzhikov Matchinskogo
raiona (The Tajik Dialect of the Maschah Region, Dushanbe, 1962);
Istoriko-lingvisticheskoe issledovanie Yagnoba i Verkhnego Zeravshana
(Historical and Linguistic Studies of Yaghnob and Upper Zarafshan,
Dushanbe, 1970); Yagnobskii yazik (The Yaghnobi Language, Moscow,
1972); Sogdiiskii yazik (The Sughdian Language, Moscow, 1981).
Khoromov died in 1993.