P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Rajabzoda
See Rajabov, Askarali.
Rashid Abdullo
See Abdullo, Rashid.

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Iraj Bashiri

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Rashid Olimov

See Olimov, Rashid.
Rasulov, Jabbor
Tajik politician Jabbor Rasulov was born into a family of workers in
Khujand on July 10, 1913. He joined the CPSU in 1939. He served both
the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan
from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Rasulov graduated from the Central Asian Cotton Production Insti-
tute in 1934. Between 1934 and 38, he was an agronomist. From 1938
to 1941, he was Acting Public Commissar of Agriculture. In 1941, he
became a Representative of the Commissariat for Production for the
Soviet Union in Tajikistan, where he served until 1945. From 1945 to
1946, he was the Public Commissar for Agriculture in the Republic.
Between 1946 and 1955, he was the Head of the Cabinet of Ministers of
the Republic. Then he became the Acting Minister of Agriculture of the
Soviet Union until 1958. From 1958 until 1960, he was the Secretary of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, following
which he became the Extraordinary Ambassador of the Soviet Union in
the Republic of Togo (1960-61). He returned to become the First Sec-
retary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan
from 1961 to 1982.
Rasulov was distinguished as a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1981. He
received nine Orders of Lenin, the October Revolution Award, the Red
Banner of Labor Award, and other medals and accolades.
Rasulov died in Dushanbe on April 4, 1982.
Rasulov, Muhammadjon
Tajik pathophysiologist and one of the main advocates of improving
health and well-being in Tajikistan, Muhammadjon Yabqubovich
Rasulov was born on August 25, 1920, in Khujand. He joined the CPSU
in 1944.
Rasulov graduated from Tajikistan State Medical Institute in 1943.
From 1943 to 1948, he was the Acting Minister of Health and Well-
Being of Tajikistan, and a professor at the Tajikistan State Medical In-
stitute. Between 1949 and 1954, he was a Scientific Worker in the De-