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Komilov, Mirzo

Tajik philosopher Mirzo Komilov was born into a farming family of
Konibodom in northern Tajikistan on January 16, 1928. He joined the
CPSU in 1957.
Komilov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in
1957. Thereafter, he taught in the middle school and, from 1959 to
1962, he became a post-graduate student in the Department of Philoso-
phy of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1962 and 1963, he be-
came the Director of the Institute of the History of Dialectical Materi-
alism of the Academy. In 1970, he became the Head of the Department
of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy and Scientific Communism of the In-
stitute of Agriculture. He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1971.
Komilov's studies deal with the problems of historical materialism
and scientific Communism. Komilov's contributions include Shakhs va
Jam'iyyat (Individual and Community, 1969, Izmenenie sotsial'noi sredi
i formirovanie novoi lichnosti (Social Transformation and Personality
Formation, 1971), Formirovanie sotsialickeskogo soznonia lichnosti
(Socialist Formation of Personal Instinct, Moscow, 1974). Formi-
rovanie Novoi lichnosti: filosofskiie i sotsialocheskie aspekti (Forma-
tion of New Personality: Philosophical and Social Aspects, Moscow,
1975).
Kucharov, Alamkhon
Tajik linguist and literary critic Alamkhon Kucharov was born in the
village of Sarichashma in Shurabad, Khatlan, on February 4, 1946. He
received his early education in the schools of Khatlan.
Kucharov graduated from the Philology Department of Tajikistan
State University in 1969. Thereafter, he was sent to the school districts
of Khatlan, where he served in various positions until 1997. From 1972
to 1976, he was an absentee post-graduate student at Tajikistan State
University. He defended his thesis, entitled Mas'alahoi Matnshinosii
Qissai "Odina"-i S. Aini (Textual Problems of the Story "Odina" by
Sadriddin Aini), in 1978. In 1982, he became an Assistant Professor,
and in 1997, he defended his post-doctorate dissertation entitled Mavqi'i
Naqdi Matn dar Adabiyotshinosii Tojik va Mas'alahoi Matnshinosii
Nasri S. Aini (The Place of Textual Criticism in Tajik Literary Criticism
and the Textual Problems of Sadriddin Aini's Prose) and received his

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