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Rajabov was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist of Tajikistan in

1961. He received five Badge of Honor Awards and a number of med-
als at the national and republic levels, including medals issued by the
Republic of Uzbekistan.
Rajabov, Ubayd
Tajik poet Ubayd Rajabov, also referred to as Ubaid Rajab, was born
in the village of Nignot in the Panjakent district of Khujand on May 15,
1932.
Rajabov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute with a
degree in Tajiki language and literature in 1954. Thereafter, he worked
for Pioniri Tojikiston, Javononi Tojikiston, Masha'al, and Sadoi Sharq.
In 1979, due to his publication of Jum'a Odina's anti-Socialist novel,
Guzashti Ayyom (The Passage of Time), he was fired from the editor-
ship of Sadoi Sharq. Beginning that same year, he became a consultant,
eventually quite famous, for children's literature at the Union of Writers
of Tajikistan. His contributions include Orizuhoi Shirin (Sweet Desires,
1958); Pairaha (Stray Road, 1967); Sadu Yak Barg (One Hundred and
One Leaves, 1970); Rui Zamin (On the Planet Earth, 1974); Khushai
Gandum (The Ear of Wheat, 1979); Rozi Obshor (The Secret of the
Waterfall, 1979); Man va Oshnohoi Man (My Acquaintances and I,
1981); and many others.
Rajabov joined the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union in 1962. In
1984, he won the Haans Christian Andersen Prize. He was the recipient
of the Order of Lenin, as well as the Honarary Order of the Presidium of
the Supreme Soviets of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
Rajabov, Zarif
Tajik historian Zarif Sharifovich Rajabov was born on June 17, 1906
in Khujand. He received his early education first in the Russian schools
and later in Soviet schools. He joined the CPSU in 1947.
Rajabov graduated from the Samarqand State Pedagogical Institute
in 1924. From 1925 to 1928, he studied in the Labor Faculty of the Sec-
ond Moscow University. In 1932, he graduated from the Moscow In-
stitute of History and philosophy and became an instructor at the
Dushanbe Pedagogical Academy. Between 1933 and 1937, he was a
post-graduate student in Oriental Studies, and from 1937 to 1941, Di-
rector of the Department of History of the Soviet Union at the Tashkent

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