P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Shahobov, Fazliddin
Tajik singer and composer Fazliddin Shahobov was born into a
scholarly family in Bukhara on March 21, 1911. He studied at the
Bukhara School of Music from 1925 to 1929, and in the Uzbek Division
of the Moscow State Conservatory from 1936 to 1941. From 1930 to
1932, he was the soloist for the Tashkent State Music Theater Orches-
tra. Between 1933 and 1936, he was the Director of Music, and Con-
ductor of the State Orchestra of the Institute of Music of Bukhara.
In 1947, Shahobov relocated to Stalinabad, and until 1956, was the
Head of the Music Division of Radio Tajikistan and a great contributor
to People's Creative Center. He was also the Chief Editor for music at

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the State Committee on Radio and Television, which was administered

by the Soviet of Ministers of Tajikistan.
Shahobov was a unique tambourine player. He was well acquainted
with the intricacies of traditional Tajik music. His voice was pleasant
and rich. Most of the prominent Shashmaqom singers of the Republic
are his students. He was one of the editors of the three-volume Surudhoi
Khalqii Tojiki (Tajik Folk Songs).
Shahobov joined the Union of Composers of the USSR in 1947. He
was recognized as a People's Singer of Tajikistan in 1947. He became a
Distinguished Artist of Tajikistan in 1957, and a recipient of the Rudaki
State Prize in1972. He garnered both the Badge of Honor and the Red
Banner of Labor, as well as other medals.
Shahobov died in Dushanbe on February 1, 1974.
Shahobova, Malohat
Tajik linguist Malohat Badriddinovna Shahobova was born in
Bukhara on March 15, 1928. She joined the CPSU in 1952.
Shahobova graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages with a
degree in English in 1948. In 1951, she graduated from Dushanbe
Pedagogical Institute, and in 1959, from the Faculty of Foreign Lan-
guages of Moscow. Thereafter, she taught at both the Institute of For-
eign Languages and the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. She has pro-
duced a large number of articles on the interrelationship between Tajiki
and English, as well as on inter-cultural relations between the two cul-
tures. She received her doctorate in 1985, and became a professor in
1987.
Shahobova's contributions include Zaboni Ingilisi (The English Lan-
guage, 1982), Opit sopostavitel'nogo issledovania grammaticheskogo
stroia tadzhikskogo i angliiskogo yazikov (Experimental Comparative
Study of Tajiki and English Grammars, Moscow, 1985), Lughti Ingilisi-
Tojiki (An English-Tajik Dictionary, 1987), and Muhovarai Tojiki-Rusi
(Tajiki-Russian Conversation, 1993).
Shahabova has retired but continues to work in the Department of
Foreign Languages of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Addition-
ally, she is the founder and Director of the Tajik Women's Association.
Shahabova is the recipient of the Honorary Order of the Presidium of
the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.

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