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He joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1944 and

received a number of medals.
Muborakshoeva, Nazarbegim
Tajik politician Nazarbegim Muborakshoeva was born in the Rushon
district of Badakhshan in 1952.
Muborakshoeva graduated from the Tajik Agricultural Institute in
1974 and from the Tashkent Communist Party High School in 1991.
She began her professional career in a Shughnan kolkhoz, where she
served as agronomist. Between 1975, when she entered the Komsomol
organization, and 1983, Muborakshoeva was as an instructor in the
Badakhshan Komsomol Organization, both as the first secretary of
Rushon and of Khorugh Komsomol Committees. Between 1983 and
1987, she was an instructor at the Khorugh City Committee of the CPT.
From 1987 to 1991, she was the first secretary of the Rushon District
Committee of the CPT. From 1991 to 1997, Muborakshoeva chaired the
Executive Committee of the Rushon District Council of People's
Deputies. She became the chair of the same committee in 1997. A
presidential decree appointed Muborakshoeva to the National Assembly
on March 20, 2000. On April 17, 2000, she became the chair of the
National Assembly.
Muhabbatov, Kholnazar
Tajik geographer and philologist Kholnazar Muhabbatov was born
on June 25, 1943, into a family of workers in the village in Shul of
Gharm.
Muhabbatov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in
1966 with a degree in geography and philology. Drawing the maps for
the Tajik Atlas, in 1970 he entered post-graduate studies and lived in
Moscow for three years. During this time, he wrote and defended his
thesis in economics. In 1977, he became a Senior Scientific Worker,
and in 1980 became the Head of a Sector. In 1990, he became the head
of the Department of Geography and Ecology at the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan. After defending his dissertation, he became the
Head of the Department of Geography and Ecology. Since 2001, he has
worked at the Center for Human Social Problems.
Muhabbatov's contributions include Inson va Tabi'at (Man and
Nature, Dushanbe, 1984); Tabi'at va Sarvati Kuhsor (Nature and the

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Wealth of the Highlands, Dushanbe, 1990); Tajikistan, Paris, 1999; and

Zakhirahoi Kuhsori Tojikiston (The Treasures of Tajik Highlands,
1999).
Muhabbatov has received several Orders of the Presidium of the
Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, and was recognized by the
Professionals Unions of Tajikistan and of the Soviet Union.
Muhabbatov has traveled to Iran, the United States, India, China,
and the Netherlands.